The words and sentences are meaningful.

Example of language and thought. Watson an American psychologist and the founder of Behaviorism. As linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf said language. Another view was expressed by the behaviorist J.

For example in our country when we say the word Pohela Boishakh it automatically spells a magic of festivity in everyones mind. Maintain for example that thought enjoys ontological priority over language that there can be thought without language but not language without thought while denying that thought comes before language in the order of philosophical elucidation. For instance con-sider the.

Language also seems to shape how people from different cultures orient themselves in space. It contains words that can combine into sentences. Their declined performance is an example of how a language can affect thought and great evidence to support the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.

It is the Bengali New Year and now this language construct evolved in such a way that it is now motivating the thought process of the people of our country. Language and Thought Peter Mosenthal College of Arts and Science State University of New York Geneseo New York One who studies the relationship between thought and language confronts a three-headed problem. In one case Boroditsky and colleagues ran a series of experiments testing whether the grammatical gender associated with a noun had an effect on how people perceive the object named by the noun.

There is no doubt that both English and Russian people can distinguish between them however for the first it is a shade while for the second it is a. Think aloud speech. Another example concerns the color blue which stands for both dark and light blue unlike Russian which has two words to describe it siniy dark blue and goluboj light blue.

For example neo-Whorfian psychologist Lera Boroditsky has run dozens of experiments that seem to point to the conclusion that many different aspects of thought are in fact influenced by language. Whether thoughts are formed in. On the other hand some linguists hold that language and thought are two separate and independent entities.