 Centrally, Weisgerber contended that each language community was engaged in a process of 'wording the world' ("Worten der Welt") by means of its mother tongue.Mediating between the forms (i.e.words and grammatical structures) of a language and the external world, there was a 'linguistic inter-world' ("sprachliche Zwischenwelt"), which operates directly, indirectly and in part autonomously, in ways peculiar to that language.