Different languages carry different lexical resources, syntactic structures, and culturally embedded norms, all of which can subtly shift the way a speaker thinks, frames ideas, and presents themselves. This is reflected in the phenomenon of cultural frame-switching , in which bilinguals adapt their behavioural and personality expression depending... See more

When thinking in language, meanings do not float alongside the linguistic expressions, because, as Wittgenstein asserts, language itself is the vehicle of thought, the mirror of reality

If language shapes the way we construct our reality, then using different languages could influence not only how we think about the world, but also how we feel and react to it.

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" (Wittgenstein 1915-16, p.67).

Whorf argued that our habitual use of language shapes how we perceive and interpret reality. The hypothesis exists in two forms: a weak version (linguistic relativity) and a strong version (linguistic determinism).

This means that everything that occurs in our minds, every thought, every insight, takes place in words and sentences and is thus constrained by the language we use