User talk:BlandK/languageandthought sandbox

The lead requires a lot of work as you've noticed. Another aspect of "language and thought" which is not mentioned on this page is the debate about whether thought is possible without language (connected to the question of whether language evolved for thought). If you have time, this could be a separate section to add to this page. The section "Examples" is not clear: examples of what? They appear to be examples of linguistic relativism. Not sure that section is needed at all. Instead the article could link to the pages for "linguistic relativism" and "linguistic determinism." Similarly with "Other schools of thought" (other than what?). If you don't have time to edit everything you want to edit, you can include comments on the "talk" page of the article for unresolved issues. (Katya) BikuK (talk) 18:25, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

I think you guys have a good plan for the article, but instead of the "examples" section, you could include some case studies for pro/con Sapir-whorf. I agree that the "lingualism" section is not accurate/needed. You could also give a small timeline of the theories of language and thought.

This is definitely a challenging article to edit because it's so broad, and specific topics within this subject already have their own articles. With the discussion surrounding the different versions of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, I might include the terms Linguistic determinism and Linguistic relativism not only to be more precise but also for the sake of linking to these articles. In exploring the question of whether or not thought can exist without language, I might at least mention the example of Genie. It's often hard to imagine a human without language, but she represents a rare case. It seems that in the actual article, the Language of Thought section doesn't actually link to that Wiki page, so I would make sure to do that. I would also try to include some discussion of Mentalese as Pinker understands it. He may not be the pioneer of LOTH, but he is certainly an important voice. Miashang4 (talk) 19:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)Mia