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Do Languages Shape the Way We Think? Vocabulary and Expressions perceive differentiate facilitate The example of Holy R
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think? Vocabulary and Expressions perceive differentiate facilitate The example of Holy R
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2018-06-10
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Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?
Vocabulary and Expressions
perceive differentiate facilitate
The example of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V truly proves the idea that a language could shape people’s way of thinking.
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?
Members of different cultures speak different languages. Does it mean that people who speak, let us say, English, see things differently than people who speak Chinese or Spanish? In other words, does language lead our way of thinking or is it the other way around?
According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic relativity, language shapes the way we think, and determines what we think about. He believed that depending on the language we speak we see the world differently.
His best example was the comparison between the idea of snow of an English person and an Eskimo person. The Eskimo has many words to describe snow, while the English only has one. An Eskimo has a specific word to describe the wet snow, the snow currently falling and so on. Therefore an Eskimo perceives the snow in a different way than an English person.
Another example is the Dani people, a farming group from New Guinea. They only have two words to describe the two basic colors: dark and bright. Hence a Dani person cannot differentiate colors as well as an English person is able to.
Although Benjamin’s theory is not yet completely clarified, it is correct to say that a language could facilitate some ways of thinking.
True or not, this topic is an interesting one to reflect upon. Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and said the following:
I speak Italian to ambassadors, French to women, German to soldiers, English to my horse and Spanish to God.
A man is as many times a man, as many languages he knows.
选项
A、正确
B、错误
答案
A
解析
根据上下文信息,在列举Holy Roman Emperor Charles V的例子之前,说话人提及“Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea”,可以推知题干正确。
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