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By Felecia M. Briscoe, Gilberto Arriaza, Rosemary C. Henze

This enlightening booklet is helping educators use daily language to create extra equitable tuition environments, and provides routines that enhance conversation and management abilities.

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3 1. The Relationship Between Language and Thought For reflection: Think of a time when you realized that you saw the world differently from someone who spoke a different first language than you. What was the difference? Do you think your first language was involved in structuring these different ways of thinking? How much freedom do we have to think outside of the structures and words our first language provides? To understand how changing language shapes our thinking, we need to go back a bit in history to consider the claim made in the 1940s by Edward Sapir, a linguist, and Benjamin Whorf, a fire insurance salesman who was a student of Sapir’s.

It’s like integrity, how you’re talking to a clerk at the checkout stand, how you’re talking to the cop that stops you, how you talk to your kids, your family members, a stranger on the street, the person who busses your dishes at a restaurant . . there’s ways that you can resist [the status quo stratification our society imposes on us], 46——The Power of Talk like saying señor, señora, speaking with respect, recognizing them. . I’m going to reinforce that you’re a whole human being who’s worthy of dignity and respect, so it’s like, reinforcing that in every little moment that we have a chance.

Are different systems used by students versus faculty and staff? How can you explain the differences in categorization, if any? Most of us can readily accept the notion that language reflects (or expresses) our cultural and physical reality. After all, one of the functions of language is to enable us to talk about the things of our world and the actions we perform in it. So, for example, if it is important for us to distinguish among different types of rocks, our language develops ways to express those distinctions.

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