Word traps and how to avoid them
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Humans have a vast range of choices in their use of language, but this can sometimes create difficulties, according to Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University. Indeed, it is possible that humans are subconsciously trapped by language. People tend to create their own limited mental pictures of the world, with metaphors often shaping, or even misshaping, views about how language works. Each language uses only a very small part of the vast language web.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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Building up a picture of the world
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Children instinctively pick up language-like sounds within the first few months of life, and learn very soon that things have specific names, according to Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University. They then learn to combine words, and can usually talk freely by the age of three and a half. Language development continues throughout childhood, with vocabulary being broadened even into adolescence.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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