The Role of Linguistic Relativity on the Identification of Sustainability Requirements: An Empirical Study

Linguistic-Relativity-Theory states that language and its structure influence people’s world view and cognition. We investigate how this theory impacts the identification of requirements in practice. To this end, we conducted two controlled experiments with 101 participants. We randomly showed participants a set of requirements dimensions (i.e. a language structure) either with a focus on software...