你有没有意识到,作为交流工具的语言本身,造成了不同母语的人在相互交流时的障碍和误解?1940年,麻省理工学院的《科技评论》刊登了一篇名为《语言学与科学》的文章,作者是耶鲁大学的人类学讲师本杰明·李·沃尔夫。这篇看似平常的文章,开启了20世纪一场关于语言与思维的大讨论。本杰明提出了“语言能够有力地影响思维”的观点,使整整一代人相信母语将 Did you realize that the language itself as a communication tool created obstacles and misunderstandings among people of different native languages? In 1940, MIT's Science and Technology Review published an article entitled “Linguistics and Science, ”by Benjamin Lee Wolfe, an anthropological lecturer at Yale University. This seemingly ordinary article opened the 20th century with a discussion of language and thinking. Benjamin raised the point that “language can strongly influence thinking”, convincing a whole generation of native speakers