Language shapes thoughts
Mengjie Qi
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Paper#1 Draft2
Professor Emily M. Renaud
Date: 09.15.2014
Language shapes thoughts
Language has developed thousands of years, and it has different types, different words , and different people who use the different languages. As a result, language plays a very important role in the world. However, language is not only different in many ways, but also combines the past on the present and future. From Leslie’s story we can see this. Leslie, who wrote the Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective, claims that Pueblo Indian storytelling traditions could help English speakers study the crucial of the combination of the past on the present and future. And Leslie believes that “[P]ueblo expression resembles something like a spider’s web”(58) “[t]he story always bringing us together, keeping this whole together, keeping this family together, keeping this clan together”(60). Therefore, the language has different ways to express people’s emotion but also combines people together. On the other side, language could separate the generation. Darznik, who wrote Persian, English, says “[s]hame took my Persian and gave me English”(140). That’s means she and her mother speak different language, and they have generation gap in some ways. Such the thinking ways. So I want to say, because language has different ways to express everything, it leads us to think in different ways. Sometimes, language brings family together, but sometimes separates parents and children have generation gap. Language requires different things of their
01:356:155:13
Paper#1 Draft2
Professor Emily M. Renaud
Date: 09.15.2014
Language shapes thoughts
Language has developed thousands of years, and it has different types, different words , and different people who use the different languages. As a result, language plays a very important role in the world. However, language is not only different in many ways, but also combines the past on the present and future. From Leslie’s story we can see this. Leslie, who wrote the Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective, claims that Pueblo Indian storytelling traditions could help English speakers study the crucial of the combination of the past on the present and future. And Leslie believes that “[P]ueblo expression resembles something like a spider’s web”(58) “[t]he story always bringing us together, keeping this whole together, keeping this family together, keeping this clan together”(60). Therefore, the language has different ways to express people’s emotion but also combines people together. On the other side, language could separate the generation. Darznik, who wrote Persian, English, says “[s]hame took my Persian and gave me English”(140). That’s means she and her mother speak different language, and they have generation gap in some ways. Such the thinking ways. So I want to say, because language has different ways to express everything, it leads us to think in different ways. Sometimes, language brings family together, but sometimes separates parents and children have generation gap. Language requires different things of their