Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Language and Parole

Which comes first: thought or language? Can we think without language? Is it possible that we think in images?
In these case, appears a very complicated situation, but to explain it I will answer these questions first. In ,y opinion, I think language and thought are not ordered, I mean they came together, because non of them can exist without the other. We think with images that are accompanied with a word. I think we can't think without language, but then appears a contradiction. Deaf people don't think with words, they think only with images.
When we think, we  have the image of something accompanied with the meaning or the word we have in our minds.
Do we learn to think before we speak, or does language shape our thoughts? Human beings have developed consciousness through the use of language symbols. With this innovation, humans became capable of an awareness of their own mental processes and through that event become amenable to modification and adaption of the very schemata which creates their reality.Language is more than just a means of communication. It influences our culture and even our thought processes. Some theorists maintain that the peculiarities of a given language do not significantly affect the thinking of those who speak or write in that language, and so the differences between languages are largely accidental or irrelevant to the meaning of the text. Other writers maintain that differences between languages are such that an accurate translation must frequently be unidiomatic in the receptor language, because the idiomatic constructions and usages of the receptor language cannot capture the foreign modes of thought which are inherent in the language of the original text. Different languages use distinctive phonemes, which are the smallest units of sound, as well as describe and name ideas and concepts differently.(http://www.kingcountydirectory.com)

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