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This position and its opposite, that culture shapes language, have been much debated.
Tens of thousands of pages of bureaucratic language have been bundled and re-bundled.
Pupils who do not speak English as their first language have been narrowing the attainment gap in recent years.
That our perceptions of language have been transformed by the abbreviations we use in texts and e-mails?
Although very general centres of language have been proposed, it seems that there are no highly specialized centres.
Student numbers learning a foreign language have been in decline for years, but the numbers of those studying German are in freefall.
Tensions in Quebec have subsided since a 1995 separatist referendum went down to a narrow defeat, and laws designed to protect the French language have been effectively enforced.
Brazilians, drawn in part by a shared language, have been filling the void, as have smaller numbers of Ecuadoreans, Colombians and Mexicans.
Philosophers who are thus "bewitched" by language have been led to wonder, for example, how one can know what is going on in another's mind or how desires and emotions can produce physical changes in the body, and vice versa.
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Dissociations between action and action-language have been documented in neuropsychiatric research and interpreted as a counter-argument for the embodied language theory.
While the trip's pros - the chance to move off the beaten track, get an insider's take on different cultures and immerse myself in the language - have been invaluable; the cons - being stood up (only once, in Guyana), having to rely on the internet, and feeling tired from being the ever-sociable house guest - have been forgettable.
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