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  • Essay / Linguistic determinism: and thoughts - 2201

    There is no human language without sociocultural context; Meanwhile, language resides in the mind of each individual and therefore linguistic interaction did not occur without the use of language. Individuals do not create languages; they just use the one society gives them. For Saeed (2009), language is the mirror of culture and is determined by the categories available in the speaker's language. Studies on the relationships between language and culture and between language and thought have a long history and have posed a proposition very conferred on modern linguistics: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. This hypothesis emphasizes that the influence of language on thinking is only one element of such a complex network between language, culture and cognition. However, in essence, this leaves out the cultural model. Without language, a certain level of cultural development and cultural knowledge cannot exist and, on the other hand, a high level of linguistic development can only exist through socio-cultural interaction. According to Flyht (2007), it is extremely evident that language reinforces cultural patterns through semantics while new meanings of new words are established by events that occur in people's lives based on their cultural occurrence. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the connection between linguistic determinism and the support of semantic studies in order to understand the words and sentences produced in the human mind when the cultural and social model in which it is taken into account. However, “the knowledge that an individual speaker of a language possesses allows him to communicate with each other”. (Riemer, 2010: 13). Semantics is a theory of languages, natural or artificial, and it is part of the major...... middle of the article...... theory of substantive universals not only with regard to the phonetic universal but also by fixed categories (noun, verb, etc.), which constitute the underlying syntactic structure of the language. The words and grammatical structures of a language have a profound effect on the way speakers think, even when they are not speaking or listening. . The essence of thinking is real words and expressions, so people do not need to conceive of a concept that does not exist in their language. Furthermore, if two people speak different languages ​​in the concepts they are able to express, their beliefs are irreconcilable and communication between them is impossible. Semantics proposes that the meaning of words is mentally represented in the form of expressions. The meanings of words can vary from language to language as children adjust and organize them from the most basic concepts..