On Language Determinism and Relativity

Language Shapes Thought: Rethinking on Linguistic Relativity

We reviewed the researches on linguistic relativity in color, space and time domains, and rethink the relationship between language and perception to support the idea that language interact with other cognitive processes and shape the perception and thought of human. Language, perception and action are not separated systems, but are closely interconnected and highly interacted to some extent. A...

On The General Relativity of Fiscal Language

A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one’s reference point, specifically one’s direction and speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein’s words, “merely an illusion.” Like time and distance, standard fiscal measures, includ...

A Possible Failure of Determinism in General Relativity

I s the future predictable? If we know the initial state of a system exactly, then do the laws of physics determine its state arbitrarily far into the future? In Newtonian mechanics, the answer is yes. Similarly in electromagnetism: if one knows the initial state of the electric and magnetic fields exactly, then Maxwell’s equations determine their state at any later time. In quantum mechanics, ...

Linguistic Relativity and Spatial Language

the role of vocabulary learning strategies on vocabulary retention and on language proficiency in iranian efl students

آموزش زبان دوم طی سالهای اخیر بدنبال روشهای بهتری برای تحقق بخشیدن به اهداف معلمین و دانش آموزان بوده است . در مورد معلمین این امر منجر به تحقیقاتی در مورد ساختار زبانی، محاوره ای و تعاملی گردیده است . در مورد دانش آموزان این امر به مطالعاتی درباره نگرش دانش آموزان نسبت به فراگیری در داخل کلاس و بیرون از آن و همچنین انواع مختلف روشهای پردازش ذهنی منجر شده است . هدف از این تحقیق یافتن روشهائی اس...