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BBI3215 Language and thought Content 1. Introduction 2. What is language? 3. What is thought? 4. The relation between language and thought 5. What the sapir-whorf hypothesis has to say about language and thought. 6. Conclusion 1. Introduction Language and thought, these are the two distinct abilities possessed by human . These two unique abilities had enabled man to be more superior than any other living things in this world. What actually are language and thought? Are they closely related? 2. What is language? According to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary:- i. language (of a country) is the speech and writing that is used by people of a particular country where as ii language (of communication) is the device used by humans to communicate with each other. In other word, it is a system of sounds and words used for communicating and to encode and deliver thought and ideas. iii According to Sociolinguistics written by R.A Hudson 1999, language is a body of knowledge...

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