Thursday, 6 December 2018

Language and shape of thinking


Does language influence to the manner we are thinking? This video answers definitely "yes":


The speaker gives several examples. For instance:
  • Direction

Language of tribe of hunters in Australia has no words "left" and "right". They use sides of light to point the direction, for instance: southwest. So all of them have very good possibility for navigation on territorial. 
  • Count

Some languages have no particular numbers. So the peoples that uses these languages are impossible to study math.
  • Nouns
All nouns have gender - female or masculine. But in different languages the gender of nouns are different. So people describe the one thing by different adjectives.

The consequence from the video is - the language influences on the shape of how people are thinking. And we should not only understand it but ask ourselves how we can think different about thinks. 


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