Article: Arabic, Islam, and the Allah lexicon; how language shapes our conception of God.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: How language shapes the abortion debate
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ...MYRA MARX FERREE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-09-2003 How language shapes the abortion debate By MYRA MARX FERREE Date: 11-09-2003, Sunday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday ABORTION ...

Article: Dermatologists can show patients how language ...
Dermatology Times;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... patients," said Dr. Greenberg, who proposed several communication tips, including a technique for showing patients how language shapes the way they think about their skin condition. For an acne patient, Dr. Greenberg begins by asking the patient to think ...

Article: WALES: Welsh eyes 'see world differently' ... say scientists ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... template to perceive reality, if these are templates are different then what people perceive is different." To see if language shapes our biological and physiological processes of colour perception, researchers used a technique called event related brain ...

Article: SCHOLARS TO EXAMINE WAYS LANGUAGE SHAPES ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 30, 2007 ;     593 words ...The University of Arkansas issued the following news release: A panel of the country's leading experts on writing and communication will lead a campus symposium on rhetoric, community and literacy from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, in room 507 of the Arkansas Union. Andrea Lunsford, professor of

Article: What's in a Word?(The Take)(the language we speak shapes the way ...
Newsweek;  July 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... pointed questions, she is amassing evidence that, yes, language shapes thought. The effect is powerful enough, she says, that ... instance, but Russian's goluboy and sinly. Skeptics of the language-shapes-thought claim have argued that that's a trivial finding ...

Article: Retelling, reimagining, and re-searching: A continuing ...
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... ideological response. "We believe," they say, "that language shapes our perception of reality, and that language such as ... familied people as unnatural." Because I agree with them that language shapes our perception of reality, it seems useful to see how their ...

Article: Media and theory through the writing process.
Academic Exchange Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... to an objective, taken-for-granted world. Rather, language shapes how people perceive and react to their world. To illustrate ... its weaker form, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argues that language "shapes" perception. The stronger form claims that language constitutes ...