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==== Johann Georg Hamann ==== [[Johann Georg Hamann]] is often suggested to be the first among the actual German Romantics to discuss the concept of the "genius" of a language.<ref>Robert L. Miller ''The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics'' p. 18.</ref>{{sfn|McAfee|2004}} In his "Essay Concerning an Academic Question", Hamann suggests that a people's language affects their worldview: {{blockquote|The lineaments of their language will thus correspond to the direction of their mentality.<ref>Quoted in Bernard D. Den Ouden, ''Language and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Essay in Chomskyan Humanism,'' p. 25.</ref>}}
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