From Twin Peaks 2017 episode 8

Highly recommended to those who enjoy Elias Merhige, Peter Tscherkassky and Guy Maddin... and of course David Lynch himself!

Language and Cognition

Linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or Whorfianism, is a concept-paradigm in linguistics and cognitive science that holds that the structure of a language affects its speakers' cognition or world view.

It will take time before another director tops the use of linguistic relativity concepts of Denis Villeneuve’s new film Arrival. Weird fiction, visionary literature and horror cinema also have their examples where language, (mis-)communication and cognition play an important role. There is also a recurring theme of language contagion. To all of these, I will be devoting a series of entries on Confusio Linguarum in the future.

EDIT: I hereby expand the scope of this blog to visionary cinema.

Some articles of reference on the film:

New ‘Arrival’ trailer Asks, How Do You Decipher an Alien Language

How Arrival Turned Linguistics Into One of the Most Gripping Dramas of the Year