![]() ![]() ![]() Colum McCann confronts this theory of language in his novel TransAtlantic. When people in power use language in a strategic way in order to control the way the world is perceived, it is easy to become unknowingly indoctrinated. By constructing language in a strategic way, one can influence your linguistic determination, directly affecting your perception of what you think and see around you. ![]() The formation of thought is formed by the language in which the thought is expressed, not by an individual's independent processes. Thiong'o suggests that language has a much stronger effect on an individual than one might expect. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist, argues that "he choice of language and the use of language is central to a people's definition of themselves in relation to the entire universe" in his book Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (4). ![]()
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