Análise do filme Arrival: Debates entre o relativismo linguístico clássico e o relativismo linguístico contemporâneo(Neowhorfianos)

Abstract

Linguistic Relativity (LR) is a theory that has been strongly refuted in the past and has returned from the 1990s with other methodological and conceptual proposals. In the film Arrival (2016) by director Denis Villeneuve, what we have is the Classical Linguistic Relativity (which suggests that language determines thought) being used as the basis for its plot, which helped popularize this complex theory. The general objective of this investigation was to analyze the film Arrival in the light of Linguistic Relativity theories. The Gonçalves (2008; 2020) and Levinson (1996; 2003)’research was used specially to discuss the classical and contemporary approaches to LR and thus analyze how such theory was used in the film in question. It is, therefore, a qualitative, observational, and descriptive research, in which the main scenes, dialogues and excerpts of the film that relate to the theory approached were mapped, using these ones to compare Classical and Contemporary LR. From the analysis of the theoretical framework, the hypothesis was confirmed that there is influence of the language on thought.