Influential schools of semantics Whorfian semantics: E.Sapir and his student B.L.Whorf,an anthropologist,studied the Amerindian languages.They put forward the famous Sapir- Whorfian hypothesis: --relation between language and thought. Our view of the world is significantly shaped and moulded by language.The language one speaks profoundly affects one's thought process and the way one interprets the world.Influential schools of semantics • Whorfian semantics: E. Sapir and his student B.L. Whorf, an anthropologist, studied the Amerindian languages. They put forward the famous Sapir￾Whorfian hypothesis: --relation between language and thought. Our view of the world is significantly shaped and moulded by language. The language one speaks profoundly affects one’s thought process and the way one interprets the world