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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Expression of thoughts

I am new to your site and found if very helpful. Although, I do have a question, How does language empower or limit the expression of our thoughts? I want to say that language empower our expression of thoughts by understanding the metaphors. If metaphor merges two things: sounds and the reality the sounds singify, than if we where to change that our thoughts would than be empowered. Am I making any sense?

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The questions you raise have exercised the minds of philosophers for centuries. org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf

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  • The questions you raise have exercised the minds of philosophers for centuries.
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The questions you raise have exercised the minds of philosophers for centuries. A good place to start is to have a look at the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf
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