LIR 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Communication Strategies In Second-Language Acquisition, Steven Pinker, Language Of Thought Hypothesis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Language and Intercultural Relations
• Course: LIR 100
• Professor: Jamie Pelkey

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Some languages use feminine or masculine nouns (french), others don"t (chinese) Some languages classify nouns into singular or plural (english) others have an additional category that represent two or more. Linguistic determinism: language controls thought and culture. Linguistic relativity: language in uences thought and worldviews, therefore differences among languages cause differences in the thought of their speakers. !1 community; growing sociolinguistic variation and diversity with one language makes it implausible to maintain that all speakers of one language think the same way. Linguistic relativism critique: evidence from cognitive science shows that view of language is innate and biologically determined prevailed. Babies, primates the bilingual mind: thinking and speaking in two languages. January 29, 2018: aneta pavelnko ndings: at discourse level, bilinguals can draw on different linguistic repertories, stances and interpretations and to construct different identities when describing personal experiences in different languages. In autobiography, narratives expressed in language of event seem to be more ef cient, accurate, detailed and emotional.