I Speak, Therefore I Think

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In his second well-known book "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell writes, "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought (Orwell, 10) ". As one of the best know George Orwell quotes, the sentence above has been quoted, analyzed, and studied by many not only because it shares the idea with the famous novel 1984, but also because people are extremely interested in the relationship between language and thought. Lera Boroditsky, as an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, has been studying on the relationship between language and cognition for years and has written a series of remarkable essays. Especially, her essay "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" published in 2009 is a both scientifically convincing and logically rigorous essay. First, "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" refers to solid and realistic cases and examples; It also proves the inner relationship between languages and the way people think by introducing a single-variable experiment; Furthermore, the essay implies Thinking Pattern, which might be a more advanced approach to answering questions about language shaping cognition. Right after throwing out the topic, Boroditsky, in the beginning parts of her essay, introduces a number of examples about how speaking different languages shape people's different ways of thinking. As Boroditsky introduces the result that she has get from the research before, based on data collected in a number of different countries, specific examples are given. The simple sentence "Bush read Chomsky's latest book." yet with all basic parts of speech helps expose a possible fundamental reason why people speaking different languages might think differently. Describing the exactly same thing, different languages focus on different parts of speech. In English, as people always say, the verb "read" dominates the entire

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