Editing Linguistic determinism (section)

{{Short description|Idea that language limits human thought}}
'''Linguistic determinism''' is the concept that language and its structures limit and [[Determinism|determine]] human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as [[categorization]], [[memory]], and [[perception]]. The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on their [[mother tongues]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hickmann|first=Maya|author-link=Maya Hickmann|year=2000|title=Linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism: some new directions|journal=Linguistics|volume=38|issue=2|page=410|doi=10.1515/ling.38.2.409|s2cid=144852868}}</ref>

Linguistic determinism is the ''strong'' form of [[linguistic relativity|linguistic relativism]] (popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which argues that individuals experience the world based on the structure of the language they habitually use. Since the 20th century, linguistic determinism has largely been discredited by studies and abandoned within linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields.