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    We use language to reflect upon ourselves and what we want others to think of us. Language allows self-reflection in this way. It helps us gain an understanding of who we are as individuals and as leaders. It allows us to analyze and/or monitor our communications. In order for us to be truly effective at leading others‚ we have to be effective at leading ourselves. If we are not able to really know ourselves‚ we are only being deluded into thinking that we can lead ourselves. Self-reflection also

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    http://www.idealibrary.com on Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers’ Conceptions of Time Lera Boroditsky Stanford University Does the language you speak affect how you think about the world? This question is taken up in three experiments. English and Mandarin talk about time differently— English predominantly talks about time as if it were horizontal‚ while Mandarin also commonly describes time as vertical. This difference between the two languages is reflected in the way their

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    Shaped by Language: What Comes First the Thought or the Language Language‚ due to its specific properties‚ is one aspect that makes human beings unique in comparison to other animals and species. The fact that different languages can alter the way we perceive the world‚ and objects we view. From the perception of space‚ time and even nouns‚ languages changes the way we think. Countless studies show that linguistic processes effect even down to the most fundamental thought processes‚ which unconsciously

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    Relating Thoughts to Language Language is defined to be words that are used in a structured way so that it could be used as a way of communication between people. It can be spoken‚ written or even understood through body gestures. Thoughts on the other hand‚ are the things that runs in a person’s mind. Our thoughts and ideas are shared with other people through language. People often use language to express what they are thinking of. Thoughts are not necessarily need to be spoken‚ they can also

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    Language and Thought Two claims about the impact of language on thinking: 1) Vygotsky: Once acquired‚ language alters the way that children think 2) Whorf: The particular language that children acquire alters the way that they think Piaget (1923) ‘The Language and Thought of the Child’ • Piaget observed what he called ‘egocentric’ speech: young children speak out loud in the presence of others but do not direct their remarks to anyone in particular. • He emphasized that children only slowly

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    LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Have you ever tried to catch yourself thinking? You can try to think while remaining conscious of your thinking process. Try and see if you are always thinking using language and‚ if yes‚ try to see if your language in the thinking process is very clear‚ grammatical or unclear and messy. Suppose we believe we can’t think clearly without using language‚ what about those deaf and mute people? If they do not have a language‚ do they think without language or they do not think at

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    Language and Thought No one would disagree with the claim that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There is great disagreement‚ however‚ about the proposition that each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. On the one hand‚ anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one another. But on the other hand‚ we expect human beings everywhere to have similar ways of experiencing

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    Language shapes the way we think‚ and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf Introduction The idea that language affects the way we remember things and the way we perceive the world was first introduced by the influential linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf (Harley‚ 2008). The central idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis‚ today more commonly known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis‚ holds that “each language embodies a worldview‚ with quite different languages

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    L.S. Vygotsky’s Thought & Word vs. Suzanne K. Langer’s Language & Thought (A comparative summary) Commonly‚ we know thought by the meaning of an idea which is produced by mental activity. It can be a plan‚ a concept‚ an opinion‚ or anything else that we think of. A language additionally is a system of communication or one place’s/group of people’s speech. Moreover‚ word is a meaningful unit of language sounds or an utterance. We know all this basic meaning of these words through the dictionary

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    In order to create a hypothetical utopian society‚ Aldous Huxley projects the future progression of technology and bases the direction of his novel Brave New World on those predictions. He shows how social standards and beliefs can be changed‚ and how a few upgrades over a few decades can cause society to be nearly unrecognizable‚ vastly dissimilar‚ and frankly quite strange from an outside perspective. Huxley predicts that technological advances can lead to views on birth‚ sex‚ and relationships

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