TOK essay Does thought control language or does language control thought
Does thought control language or does language control thought?
Language can be thought of as a symbol system, engaged in representing the world, capturing and communicating thought and experience. One of the many definitions of the word “language” we can find in any dictionary. However every person may have thought of a similar definition but it is rarely identical to what other people would think of. There is an immense variety of words that when put together in a structured sentences construct a context that we understand and communicate with. Furthermore when combining words together the context may vary depending on the words themselves. It is interesting to see how people have mastered the use of language to express their feelings, emotions It is interesting to see how people have mastered the use of language to express their “ideas, emotions and desires”, along with poets that play with words to create a distant reality that each of us would imagine in our own unique way, making literature so vastly fascinating.
