The limits of my language are the limits of my world(TM). Discuss the implications of this statement and consider how far you agree with it.

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‘The limits of my language are the limits of my world’. Discuss the implications of this statement and consider how far you agree with it.

      Human language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication; although other animals make use of quite sophisticated communicative systems, none of these are known to make use of all of the properties that linguists use to define language. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. At the core of theoretical linguistics are the study of language structure and the study of meaning. Edward Sapir and his colleague Benjamin Whorf came up with a hypothesis postulating that a particular language's nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers: that different language patterns yield different patterns of thought.

     On the basis of this theory we could easily say that community we are born into influences our thinking, our background,  education and social interaction. For example, a person born in England would be characterised by different behaviours and same drives as a person born in other country.

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      Pupils in  Poland study quite a lot about patriotism and values. A structure of a Polish school teaching is completely  different to English one. Everyone in Poland has to learn Polish language and history until they are 19.  Most of  books they have to read refer  to a hero attitude, death, Poland and its history, justice, anti-Semitism, wars and concentration  camps. We are  being taught information that will shape us in some way and will help us to answer a question: Am I a patriot? Another subject that Polish students have to learn is religious studies. About ...

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