Book Report of "Language in My Thought and My Action"

Language is a very import part in our life, we carry it with us through all the steps, processes, moments experiences of our life, language built us and make us grow and the most important thing is that it grows with us, changes, modifies itself, and becomes more appropriate and specific. As we pointed out language help us to create and understand the world around us, gives meaning to everything and gives birth to emotions and feelings; a world without language would be meaningless and very lonely. Language it’s what help us grow up, the more we learn through it, the more we desire to experience and study in deep, leading us to new prospective, opening our mind to more specific and deep concepts, ideas, projects, goals. We really can’t

Language was considered as the most important and well known tool for communication. Linguistics plays a vital role for the development of a language. Linguistics was defined as scientific study of language which consists of four branches one among that was Semantics. Semantics was defined as study of meaning and communication. This journal is mainly dealing with the Leech’s seven types of meaning in Semantics.

If a news anchor tells viewers the news in a certain way and gives a personal opinion on it, are they going to believe the same as them? People believe that media officials have news anchors tell news in an agreeable way. But some people will think what they want. But can’t both be right?

While words are a phenomenal force, actions are an even greater one. Humanity itself has come in contact with over thousands of languages in today’s time, the quantity of words and definitions is outstanding. Though

Originally published in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, Lera Boroditsky’s paper titled “Lost in Translation” analyzes the impact language has on thought. Formatted as more of a persuasive than truth seeking essay, Boroditsky begins by asking the reader if the language a person speaks shapes the way they think. This makes the reader believe as though she is truly trying to find an answer to this inquiry, but as the paper goes on, the reader is mostly introduced to evidence that supports Boroditsky’s stance and she merely touches upon the argument of the opposing side. Although Boroditsky does not include more counterarguments, “Lost in Translation” is a well written article which demonstrates that languages indeed shape the way people think through her use of the Rhetorical Triangle, inductive logic, and her stylistic choices.

In 2010, psychologist Lera Borodistsky wrote “Lost in Translation’. This article focuses on doing research to find out whether or not the language we speak set a foundation to the way we think. For a very long time it was questionable if languages could be studied and to what affects they have on people lives and their way of thinking. Through research, it has now proven that language can have a major impact on how people see the world. I agree with the findings in this article, I believe that language plays a major role in how people see and react to different parts of the world (Podolefsky & Brown, 2012).

“Most of us are brought up with a set of beliefs and values and, throughout our lives, tend to surround ourselves with people who share the same values and beliefs. Therefore, it can be difficult when we 're faced with ideas that challenge our own and, though we may wish to be open-minded, we may struggle with the act of it from time to time.(Positively present)” The problem with being closed minded is they use hostility, prejudice, indifference, and inattention to keep new or different ideas from gaining a foothold. Basically they don’t try to let new ideas or beliefs cross their minds. Also people who are closed minded don’t want to learn or change their opinion on certain beliefs. They like to think they

Over the centuries of human development, initial grunts and hand signs have been replaced by more complicated language structures as a basis of communication. Today, it is not only words and their assigned meanings that make the bulk of communication among people. There are also subtle nuances of meaning and implied meaning that are often misunderstood or misconstrued. Furthermore, elements such as lying and misunderstanding also influence how language is used and perceived among individuals. Because language forms the majority of communication among human beings, it is also true that it is closely connected to cognitive psychology and the way in which human beings ensure their health on various levels, including the mental level. In order to further consider this, concepts such as lexicon, the features of language, and the four levels of language can be usefully examined.

Hauck, Ben. "On Semantics and General Semantics: Re-Defining the Former to Understand the Latter." A Review of General Semantics 70.3 (2013): 232-244

Language production is a cognitive process we achieve easily and rapidly, but which is extremely complex (Goldstein, 2008: 381). “Our creative linguistic abilities reflect our tacit or implicit knowledge of the structure of our language” (Chomsky, 1986). “Our spontaneous speech is far from being perfect. Rather, it is interspersed with irregularities and errors of various kinds. Speakers may begin an utterance but never bring it to an end—at least not to the end they originally intended—because, while speaking, they realize that what they were going to say is inadequate, imprecise, or simply wrong.” (Pfau, 2009: 1). As normal humans, we usually express our thoughts, feelings, and ideas through the procedure of speech production. And while frequently sending and conveying our ideas, we might produce some unwanted and wrong utterances in our daily speech. Linguists believe that most of our daily utterances are frequently deformed by spontaneous speech errors or slips of the tongue (Pfau, 2009: 1). In linguistics, slips of the tongue is one of everyday frequent and spontaneous speech errors. Generally, slips of the tongue, in particular, are unintentional and distorted outputs during the process of speech production. Thus, these slips are not intentional and can’t represent our true feelings and desires. However, Sigmund Freud argues that slips of the tongue “have a meaning and can be

Semantics is generally defined as “the study of meaning” (Ben Hauck). In General Semantics, focus is placed on what the implication of the word being defined is, and how to use it for better communication, via symbols and words. General Semantics looks at how every word carries its own unique set of implications, and how these implications can shift the determined meaning of what you say. The viewpoint of this branch of semantics is that every word carries with it certain images and feeling, which interpret differently to individual people. By clarifying and defining the meanings behind words, General Semantics hopes to lessen the conflict that can arise from misinterpretation. When practiced correctly, General Semantics can make communication more effective by avoiding the misinterpretation that can occur when two speakers do not have the same understanding of a word, term, or phrase. The “Father of General Semantics” is Alfred Korzybski. Korzybski tries to make the point that in General Semantics “the words are not the thing.” This type of thinking takes a step away from older, aristotleliana thinking, and moves toward modern scientific thinking. “Korzybski promoted the teaching of modern scientific thinking to resolve problems with human sanity, with implications on everyday behavior, emotions, thought, and language,” (Hauck). General Semantics is a tool used to develop positive mental attitudes, which are better equipped to deal with critical thinking. Despite its

My proposed study is embedded in the theory of language as a social activity. In this theory, Hall refers of what he calls as the ‘representation’ to be referred as a process of constructing reality. According to Hall, things such as words and images do not carry meaning they symbolize. The meanings are constructed by their ‘representation’ in language through concepts and signs.

Semantics is the study of meaning that is used to understand people 's words and linguistic theories developed in modeling human language to understand the pragmatic semantic relations that exist between the words. Sense relations have been the interest of philosophers, psychologists, linguists and language teacher and each of them provided theories about lexicon relations related to their own field and some approaches were made in order to study sense relations and they were 1- Pragmatic: the linguistics phenomena are focused on the use of sense relations and their position in the human mind2- Psycholinguistic: providing a psychological model of the information and procedures involved in the semantic phenomena of the human language.

This is fact that those people who are interested in the realization of different languages are taking fascination to learn relevant

It is common knowledge that one of the most important functions of language is to name the world or express human thoughts through a system of concepts. They exist in association in language and make up a giant network with many interconnection and