【正确答案】正确答案:Sapir-Whorf hypothesis consists of two parts: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. Linguistic determinism, or the strong version, has been criticized for its excessive concern with surface structures of individual languages. In fact, all languages are fundamental of the same universal human character, including the lexico-semantic and syntactic components of language and all normal human beings are gifted with the same linguistic faculty and cognitive capacity. The flaws of that hypothesis can be revealed through the following analysis. (1) Different grammatical structures do not mean that speakers of different languages differ in thinking logic or reasoning. (2) Equivalent translation is always possible in spite of the fact that in practice there are hardly any people in perfect control of two genetically different languages. (3) People who have good command of two genetic-unrelated languages do not have "double minds" or do not have to change their thinking logic when speaking foreign tongue.
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