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The Power of Language
StaffSeptember 13, 2010
An article on how language can affect how we experience the world. What might the significance for communcating the gospel be?
Here's an excerpt from the article:
Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim: “Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.” This maxim offers us the key to unlocking the real force of the mother tongue: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
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