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Language Is More Powerful Than We Think - A Comparison of Thought and Language  

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Language Is More Powerful Than We Think - A Comparison of Thought and Language Today, more than ever, language is an integral part of our existence and survival. We depend on it to think and communicate on a day to day basis from person to person. In this age of cellular phones, fax machines and the internet, we use language so much that we usually take the power of language for granted. A man named Ludwig Wittgenstein once said , "If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a different world." First of all, are our thought processes directly linked to the words and symbols we call language? Is it possible that language can alter the way we think or even control what we know? And, can language reveal our own personal identity? Language can in fact have the ability to do all those things; it can change our values,...

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5 out of 5 stars Reviewed by: cutsdish, 2006-12-28

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