Knowledge and Language - Perspective

Discuss:
KQ:
To what extent does language allow us to make our private experiences public?

How many languages are there in the world?

https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/how-many-languages

Think of an object:
IA PROMPT
21 What is the relationship between knowledge and culture?

What is Qulliq?
Inuit Culture, Lighting the Qulliq:
https://youtu.be/yMMcFSBi2hg

Do you have any emotional, imaginative, intuitive sense of the word-qulliq and its
role in the culture?

ACTIVITY

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Discuss:

● Can you have significant understanding of a language if you don’t speak their
language?
● Do you think different languages depict the world differently?

Language shapes what we know and what we do not know.

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Does language limit or define what we know?

English speakers orient themselves in space using left, right, ahead, behind etc. whereas
some speakers identify themselves in terms of their orientation to the cardinal directions
in order to discuss their location in space.

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Lost in Translation:
The power of language to shape how we view the world
Listen or Read:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/581657754

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Discuss:

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