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    Language influences how we think and see the world. It allows us to describe things, but can also be used to influence and manipulate perspectives. The language we speak determines our dominant way of thinking and speaking. Translating between languages can be difficult because language shapes our understanding and certain concepts may not directly translate word for word.

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    Language influences how we think and see the world. It allows us to describe things, but can also be used to influence and manipulate perspectives. The language we speak determines our dominant way of thinking and speaking. Translating between languages can be difficult because language shapes our understanding and certain concepts may not directly translate word for word.

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    LANGUAGE

    Glossary on a way of knowing


    LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE: LANGUAGE - BASICS
    USEFUL SENTENCES
    Connotation
    Language and thought are The ideas and associations a word/expression evokes in addition to its
    connected. literal meaning
    Denotation
    We use language to describe things, What a word/expression refers to, the literal meaning.
    but also to influence, persuade and Weasel words:
    sometimes even manipulate the way Words that qualify a seemingly clear and precise statement and make
    people see things. it vague and ambiguous
    Stereotype:
    The language we speak influences A fixed, oversimplified and usually negative picture of an individual or
    the way we see the world. group based on their membership of that group.
    Metaphor
    Language can be ambiguous. A figure of speech which makes an implicit comparison between two
    things
    A lot of our knowledge has been irony
    passed on through language, either in A figure of speech in which words are used to say one thing and mean
    spoken form, or in written form (books, the opposite
    texts). dominant discourse
    The dominant way of thinking and speaking.
    The language we use can create
    stereotypes.
    LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
    We sometimes express and sustain
    relationships of power and authority Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
    through language. The claim that the language you speak influences or determines the
    way you see the world.
    Translating can be difficult. Linguistic determinism:
    The idea that the language you speak determines what you think
    The dominant discourse determines to Idiom:
    a large extent what we speak and A colloquial (typical to a language) expression whose figurative (not
    think. literal) meaning cannot really be deciphered from its literal meaning.
    grammar
    What if… everyone in the world back translation:
    spoke….? translating something that has been translated into a target language
    back into the original language

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