Based on the below three texts dealing with linguistic relativity and on your own observations and experience, write an essay in which you discuss your current view of Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (LRH), its validity, and its importance. Refer to each of your sources in your discussion, remembering to use quotation marks when using an author’s words, and parenthetically citing each source from which you borrow ideas or information.
Create an annotated bibliography for these sources, in accordance with the guidelines explained at the UNC (http://writingcenter.unc.edu/resources/handouts-demos/specific-writing-assignments/annotated-bibliographies) and Purdue OWL (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/) websites. Describe the kind of source and the perspective each adopts toward LRH.
1. Henry Fountain’s “Proof Positive that People See Colors with the Tongue”
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/NewYorkTimes.html
2. Sharon Begley’s “What’s in a Word?”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/07/08/what-s-in-a-word.html
3. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis”
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/index.html#1
