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  2. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    For example, one study randomly assigned bilingual people in India to complete a work task in Hindi or English. [10] Social norms were more effective at motivating people to work longer in Hindi, whereas payment was more effective in English, which is similar to results when people work in their native languages in the US and India.

  3. Workplace communication - Wikipedia

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    The workplace significantly influences working women's language use, with solidarity and professionalism being key factors driving changes in their language across different settings. [ 16 ] Emotional barriers: Emotional barriers like fear, inferiority, shyness, lack of self confidence and skills will stop an employee in communicating ...

  4. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky read Sapir's work and experimentally studied the ways in which the development of concepts in children was influenced by structures given in language. His 1934 work "Thought and Language" [35] has been compared to Whorf's and taken as mutually supportive evidence of language's influence on cognition. [36]

  5. Linguistic determinism - Wikipedia

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    The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on their mother tongues. [ 1 ] Linguistic determinism is the strong form of linguistic relativity (popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which argues that individuals experience the world ...

  6. Linguistic anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use.

  7. Influence of cultural and linguistic diversity in communication

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    The influence of mother tongue is very obvious in the English accent of the people in India and it is known as Indian accent in India, in other countries there are different kinds of accents like Korean, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Brazilian accents. People show their cultural and gestural differences in their style of communication.

  8. Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?

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    Today Dorman says 44% of languages have grammatical gender systems, which can help ease communication for people speaking and understanding a language. "Grammatical gender is a classification ...

  9. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    The concept of linguistic relativity concerns the relationship between language and thought, specifically whether language influences thought, and, if so, how.This question has led to research in multiple disciplines—including anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy.