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Thinking and Language: Does Language Influence the Way We Think?
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that the language a person speaks influences the way he thinks. Asian languages are often described as high context languages (what you say may or may not be what you mean, depending on the context), whe...
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Thinking and Language: Story of Genie, a Child Without Language, The
Genie was in her early teens when she escaped a life of captivity caged in a room without language, clothing, or human companionship by a father who considered her subhuman. Susan Curtiss, then a graduate student at UCLA, became part of a grant-supp...