Tools for Thought : Barbara Tversky

Language and Bilingual Cognition



Some people find it unacceptable that our language affects our thinking while other think that this is indeed worth a thought !
Effect of language has shown for time, space, color, shape and object.
More than words there are relations and features of things. People usually describe accomplished goals and focus on features which are easy to describe. Things are categorized through language. Language uses labels and names to categorize things. Language lets us establish relationship between different categories. We are affected by the language we speak and the language we hear.
Language has longer term off line effects which encourage people to give attention to some things and ignoring the other associations and aspects. We would implement whatever we heard as toddlers.
Language has many delicately interwoven communicative strands.
Language affects our gestures. Language can help or hinder our thoughts. Language emphasizes on some meanings and relations and doesn't transform the others. It often organizes the useful things but sometimes it may ignore the essential things.

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