AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Political Correctness, Ethnocentrism, Tok Pisin
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No! to know the right way to speak a language we lso have to be aware of the appropriate social patterns of interaction. English: second person singular or plural: you. French: second person singular: tu, second person plural: vous, vous can also be used in a formal context, to be polite when speaking to a single individual. They are learned and socially acquires: they depend of socialization. Values and beliefs linked to the appropriate way of speaking are transmitted by adults to children depending on their culture. A different language implies a different way of talking, but also a different way of thinking, imagining and experiencing the world. We are not free to describe the world impartially: we are influences by the modes of interpretation given by our language, language influences through i. e. it influences the way we see and categorize the world. No! if language determines our way of thinking. Each language would be a completely sealed universe.
