The past few decades have seen a full resurgence of the question of whether speakers of different languages think differently, also known as the Whorfian question. A characteristic of this neo-Whorfian enterprise is that the knowledge it has generated stems from psycholinguistic laboratory methods. As a consequence, our knowledge about how Whorfian effects play out in naturally occurring behaviour (i.e. ‘in the wild’) is severely limited. This study argues that the time is ripe to redeem this evidentiary bias, and advocates a multidisciplinary approach towards the Whorfian question, in which insights from laboratory settings are combined with naturalistic data in order to yield a rounded picture of the influence of language on thought. To showcase the potential of such an approach, the study uses laboratory-generated knowledge on the influence of grammatical categories on cognition to interpret two examples of naturalistic human interaction and action in the domains of spatial navigation and scientific practice.

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Whorf in the Wild：来自人类互动的自然主义证据

在过去的几十年里，不同语言的使用者是否有不同的想法，也被称为沃尔夫问题，这个问题全面复苏。这种新沃尔夫主义企业的一个特点是它产生的知识源于心理语言学实验室方法。因此，我们关于沃尔夫效应如何在自然发生的行为（即“野外”）中发挥作用的知识非常有限。本研究认为，纠正这种证据偏见的时机已经成熟，并提倡对沃尔夫问题采取多学科方法，将实验室环境的见解与自然数据相结合，以便全面了解语言对思想的影响。为了展示这种方法的潜力，