title: THE SAPIR – WHORF HYPOTHESIS AND THE IDEA OF LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY (LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHIC ASPECT)
abstract: The purpose of the article is to reveal the views of E. Sapir and B. L. Whorf on the relationship between language, thinking and reality (experience), to briefly analyze some interpretations belonging to the critics of the Sapir — Whorf hypothesis, to identify those statements of Sapir and Whorf that have retained their value for linguistics at the beginning of the XXI century. The object of study is the phenomenon traditionally called the “Sapir — Whorf hypothesis”. The subject of the study is 
journal: Мова