Re: some joint activity re contextless reading?
Ken Goodman (kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 23:12:06 -0700
While whorf felt that language shaped thought to the social
perspectives, I think that language develops to express cultural views.
It is not so much that thought is different in different languages but
rather language results from different social- and personal- ways of
thinking.
Ken Goodman
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