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Language And Thought
BBI3215 Introduction to psycholinguistics Assignment topic: Language and thought 1. Introduction Language and thought, these are the two distinct abilities possessed by human . These two unique abilities had enabled man to be more superior than any other living things in this world. What actually are language and thought? Are they closely related? Language does not exist in a vacuum. We use it for a variety of purpose and it is therefore molded by many factors. As it is used for transmitting ideas, its structures and function must reflect the ideas. Because it must be spoken and understood easily, its structure and function must be within the limitation of our psychological and processing capacities. As people from different social and cultural backgrounds are using language for communication, these forces molds Its structure and function too. But once it is acquired and used, language wields a power of its own. As it is affected and molded by the above factors, so language affects and molds people’s daily lives. Language helps us to think about something and stops us from thinking of others. To put this in simple terms, the whole argument is like two sides of the coins. Is it reality , that means the world and the whole experience of living, that gives us the words and the sentences that make up our language, or is it the words and the sentences that are in our language that maks us reality in the way we do? It is a question that is quite difficult to answer. 1 2. What is language? According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:- I language (of a country) is the speech and writing that is used by people of a particular country where as ii language (of communication) is the device used by humans to communicate with each other. In other word, it is a system of sounds and words used for communicating and to encode and deliv... Please login to view comments from other users.
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