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 Paper 4 Question 2 Language is thought out to affect, in various ways, what we think. In either case, language affects our thoughts or our thoughts affect our language. While the excerpt from the Stanford University online magazine, in agreement that language shapes how we think. The excerpt provides examples and statements to lead the audience with the common opinion that is presented by a Stanford researcher. Within different languages, we are presented with different structures of sentences. Within this factor being the case, there is room for different interpretations of specific things. For instance, how the same sentence, with some minor changes, can reroute our thoughts. In the excerpt, it states that in English the speaker would say, “‘She broke the cup.”’ While in Japanese or Spanish the speaker would say, “The cup broke itself.” Which are both in the same situation, person A breaks the cup, and person B describes it. However, the blame is placed differently. In English w...

Paper 4, Question 1 David Crystal has taught the world that, one thousand years ago the global language was Latin. Now the global language is English, as most counties have made it their second language to facilitate communication globally. The spread of language is caused by the power of the people who speak it, with technological advancements.  The reasoning for a specified language to be identified as the global language is for communication reasons between countries. According to the article, it states that there are, “more people in China who speak English as a second language”, than Americans who speak it as their first language. This quote from the article helps to accumulate an understanding of how globalized the language is presently. ‘Kachru’s Circles Model’ proves the textual evidence in a visual and data-based way. The model shows that in the inner circle, where English is the native language, English is the native or mother tongue of people in the country. Which consis...