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the relevance of which increases for experienced entrepreneurs (Di Pietro &
Tenca, 2023).
These studies make an important contribution to the literature by highlighting
the importance of entrepreneurs’ personalities in obtaining financing support
from external parties.
3.3 Language Future-Time-Reference and its influence on
future-oriented behaviours
In the linguistics literature, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (Whorf, 1956) argues
that the structure of a language aects how its speakers conceptualise their
world, influencing their cognitive processes.
This hypothesis has a strong version (linguistic determinism), which states
that the language people speak determines or constrains the way they think and
view the real world ...