700 Reasons: Reason #436

Reason: 436
The study of language can be more fundamental epistemologically than the study of any other discipline, since different languages do indeed construct reality in somewhat different ways... Language can and does play an important role in how we perceive and understand reality, and recognition of this role of human language can be an important outcome of the study of any language
Reference:
Reagan, T. (2004) 'Don't know much about the French I took' in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Volume 3 (2), pp. 229-239
Related Keywords:
Knowledge, Language awareness

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