Persecuting language
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This document discusses some weaknesses and strengths of language. It notes that different languages may shape different understandings of the world and that language barriers can lead to miscommunication. Some weaknesses of language include vagueness, ambiguity, metaphors, and words having multiple meanings open to interpretation. However, emotions and perception are identified as strengths in communicating things that cannot be explained through words alone.
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Persecuting language
- 1. Persecuting Language as a WOK Tiffanie and Zac
- 2. Weaknesses to language ● To what degree might different language shape different self-concepts or world-concepts? What are the implications of this? ● Language Barriers ● "Lost in translation" ● "It would be impossible to define the feeling behind the colour red to a person who's never experienced it without showing them it" ● "words are open to interpretation" ● some words have multiple meanings" ● all the countless connotations your english teacher can spot that you cannot ● Approximately 3000 languages worldwide - miscommunication
- 3. Problematic meanings ● Vague statements ● Ambiguity ● Secondary Meaning ● Metaphor ● Irony ● Euphemisms
- 4. Strengths of Emotions & Perception ● "some things cannot be explained by words, but can be by emotions" ● Helen Keller