This man is best known for creating the aforementioned theory that asserts a person's language affects the way he perceives the world.
This thinker analyzed people who smoked cigarettes in a storage area marked "empty gasoline drums" but who refrained from smoking in a room marked "gasoline drums" in his essay "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language." James Cooke Brown created Loglan to test this man's theory that argued Hopi perceive time differently than English speakers. This man is best known for creating the aforementioned theory that asserts a person's language affects the way he perceives the world. For 10 points, name this linguist who formed a theory with his teacher Edward Sapir.
This thinker analyzed people who smoked cigarettes in a storage area marked "empty gasoline drums" but who refrained from smoking in a room marked "gasoline drums" in his essay "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language."
Benjamin Lee {Whorf}