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Introduction Language and thought A linguistic definition of language is 'language shapes our ideas, thought processes and experience of the word' (shape means causally determines and delimits). There has been considerable interest in the question of the relationship between thought and language and the similarities and differences that exist in thinking between members of different language communities. One of the earliest attempts to provide a theoretical account of the relationship between language and thought was made by the behaviourists. John Watson, the founder of behaviourism, argued that thinking was nothing more than inner speech. It may be true that most people sometimes engage in inner speech when thinking about difficult problems. Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that thought was purely linguistic and that the kinds of mental processes which animals or small children engaged in wasn't really thinking all. He claimed that 'the limits of my language mean the limits to my world,'...

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