Peter Smagorinsky 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
> >--