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The words and grammar of a language can directly shape the thoughts of its speakers according to linguistic determinism. Which states that the structure of a language determines the thought processes of its speakers. In the text, which is taken from the Stanford University online magazine, it refers to this hypothesis by questioning the link between language and our thoughts which can be seen by the title, “Can language shape how we think?”. This link can also be seen throughout the whole text as well. Different cultures express their relationship to concepts like space, time and gender through language in different ways at times. This expression to those concepts can be seen in the text, “space, time or gender” when discussing how Boroditsky focuses on linguistic features that could inform more fundamental differences in how cultures convey their relationship to those concepts mentioned formerly. The quote shows how different languages include temporal (which is defined as relat...
