Topic > The effects of language - 1693

“Language was not a simple sequence of words. It had a suggestive power far beyond its immediate and lexical meaning. (Ngugi WA Thiong'O, Decolonizing the Mind)” According to Thiong'O it is not the words that are said but the context in which they are used. A prime example is how we can say one thing, but our body language and the underlying meaning of our words can mean many other things. We often say that words are how we can tell a story, but ultimately we know that it is possible to tell a story without the use of language. Even though we say that language is the center of the world, we often forget that we can communicate without using words. We often initiate misunderstanding without the use of language, but rather our underlying