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  2. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    It can be used to transfer thoughts from one mind, to another mind, and it can also be used to modify and explore thoughts within a mind. The bits of linguistic information that enter into one person's mind, from another, cause people to entertain a new thought with profound effects on their world knowledge, inferencing, and subsequent behavior.

  3. Speech - Wikipedia

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    Speech production is an unconscious multi-step process by which thoughts are generated into spoken utterances. Production involves the unconscious mind selecting appropriate words and the appropriate form of those words from the lexicon and morphology, and the organization of those words through the syntax.

  4. Actions speak louder than words - Wikipedia

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    Search for Actions speak louder than words in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Actions speak louder than words article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia: description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another. Tautology: superfluous repetition of the same sense in different words Example: The children gathered in a round circle; Zeugma: use of a single verb to describe two or more actions. Zoomorphism: applying animal characteristics to humans or gods.

  6. Doublespeak - Wikipedia

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    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."

  7. Speaking in tongues - Wikipedia

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    Glossolalia is a borrowing of the γλωσσολαλία (glossolalía), which is a compound of the γλῶσσα (glossa) ' tongue, language ' [7] and λαλέω (laleō) ' to speak, talk, chat, prattle, make a sound '. [8] The Greek expression (in various forms) appears in the New Testament in the books of Acts and First Corinthians.

  8. Equanimity - Wikipedia

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    Another Sanskrit term for equanimity is upekṣhā.This is the term used by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras (1.33). [4] Here upekṣhā is considered to be one of the four sublime attitudes, along with loving-kindness (maitri), compassion (karuṇā), and joy (mudita).

  9. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of it. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination, and volition. [2]