首页
登录
职称英语
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?Vocabulary and Expressions perceive dif
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?Vocabulary and Expressions perceive dif
游客
2023-12-29
10
管理
问题
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?
Vocabulary and Expressions
perceive differentiate facilitate [br] The example of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V truly proves the idea that a language could shape people’s way of thinking.
Do Languages Shape the Way We Think?
Members of different cultures speak different languages. Does it mean that people who speak, let us say, English, see things differently than people who speak Chinese or Spanish? In other words, does language lead our way of thinking or is it the other way around?
According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic relativity, language shapes the way we think, and determines what we think about. He believed that depending on the language we speak we see the world differently.
His best example was the comparison between the idea of snow of an English person and an Eskimo person. The Eskimo has many words to describe snow, while the English only has one. An Eskimo has a specific word to describe the wet snow, the snow currently falling and so on. Therefore an Eskimo perceives the snow in a different way than an English person.
Another example is the Dani people, a farming group from New Guinea. They only have two words to describe the two basic colors: dark and bright. Hence a Dani person cannot differentiate colors as well as an English person is able to.
Although Benjamin’s theory is not yet completely clarified, it is correct to say that a language could facilitate some ways of thinking.
True or not, this topic is an interesting one to reflect upon. Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and said the following:
I speak Italian to ambassadors, French to women, German to soldiers, English to my horse and Spanish to God.
A man is as many times a man, as many languages he knows.
选项
A、正确
B、错误
答案
A
解析
根据上下文信息,在列举Holy Roman Emperor Charles V的例子之前,说话人提及“Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea”,可以推知题干正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3314475.html
相关试题推荐
IMF’sConcernaboutZimbabwe’sEconomyVocabularyandExpressionsInternational
IMF’sConcernaboutZimbabwe’sEconomyVocabularyandExpressionsInternational
IMF’sConcernaboutZimbabwe’sEconomyVocabularyandExpressionsInternational
IMF’sConcernaboutZimbabwe’sEconomyVocabularyandExpressionsInternational
IMF’sConcernaboutZimbabwe’sEconomyVocabularyandExpressionsInternational
StockMarketVocabularyandExpressionsdebtmarketliquidinvestmentu
StockMarketVocabularyandExpressionsdebtmarketliquidinvestmentu
StockMarketVocabularyandExpressionsdebtmarketliquidinvestmentu
StockMarketVocabularyandExpressionsdebtmarketliquidinvestmentu
StockMarketVocabularyandExpressionsdebtmarketliquidinvestmentu
随机试题
Entertheinformationage.Informationistherawmaterialformanyoftheb
Before1965manyscientistspicturedthecirculationoftheocean’swaterm
愈吃愈趋王冷静。Themoreyoueat,thecalmeryouwillbecome.汉语谓语动词的时态、情态及语态是隐性的,在英语译文中要变
在临床医学研究中,可以获得意外损伤赔偿的是A.因参加试验而意外受损伤者有权力要求
下列关于副作用的描述,正确的是A.药物在治疗剂量时出现的与治疗目的无关的作用
借款人申请办理贷款展期,需要征得保证人的同意,既可以是书面同意,也可以是口头同意
全球金融体系的主要参与者包括() Ⅰ、金融公司 Ⅱ、公共部门 Ⅲ、非金融
《伤寒论》中"少阴病下利清谷,里寒外热,手足厥逆,脉微欲绝,身反不恶寒,其人面色
某商品出口到欧洲某港口,每吨的成本为10000元,运费为每吨1000元,保险费率
防火防爆措施是综合性的措施,包括选用合理的电气设备,保持必要的防火间距,电气设备
最新回复
(
0
)