LanguageandThought英语论文.docLanguage and Thought Contents 1. Aspects of Language and Thought 2. Relativity and Determinism Language and Thought 4. Suggested Readings
Abstract This thesis mainly discusses the relationship between language and thought,many scholars all believe that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There are two different views on the issue , one is the view of language relativity which argues people have to pay attention to the meanings that are grammatically marked in that language in order to speak any language, the other is the view of language determinism which argues the differences between languages influence the ways people think-perhaps the ways in which whole cultures is the summary of this paper. Key Words:Language Thoughe Realtatity determinism Language and Thought By Dan Slobin of the University of California, Berkeley No one would disagree with the claim that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There is great disagreement,however, about the proposition that each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. On the one hand,anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one another. But on the other hand, we expect human beings everywhere to have similar ways of experiencing the
