Arranged by

Dian Amalinda
Nur Azyza Malik

Language, culture, and

thought
 Key focus

• What are Language, Culture, and Thought?

1
• Perspective of expert about the relation
2 between language, culture, and thought!

• Is there relation between language, culture, and

3 thought?
 What are language culture and though

• What is
Language language?

• What is
Culture Culture?

• What is
Thought Thought?
 POINT OF VIEW

According to the expert:

 Sapir-Whorf

STRONG form :
“Language determines thought
and culture”

“This holds that people from different

cultures think differently because of
differences in their languages.”
 Point of view
 Von Humboldt

LautForm

 There is relationship between a

nation’s language and its
Language
character

IdeenForm
 POINT OF VIEW

 Jean Piaget

 Piaget’s theory it called Cognitive Development

“Thought that determines

the language”
 Point of view
 Noam Chomsky

 Children are born ready to learn whatever

languages they hear around them

 Children learn to talk because they are

genetically equipped to do so

Human Have a:
Language Acquisition Device
(LAD)
 CONCLUSION

SO IT CAN BE CONCLUDED THAT

LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND
THOUGHT HAVE INTERRELATED
INFLUENCES