sorry for the misfire between thinking and typing...
Peter
At 09:18 AM 3/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I think that the notion of a dialect is useful here--that language
>represents ways of thinking but in turn serves as a set of signs that
>guides ways of thinking. I've always assumed this to be a Vygotskian
>principle about the relationship between thinking and speech.
>
>Peter
>
>At 11:12 PM 3/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>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
>>--