Bias & Language

We are going to talk about Bias and Language today. How they are related is very complicated but well familiar. Something we do daily day of our life without realized what we were thinking and what we had said. “What the hell are you talking about?” let me abbreviating this subject. As for Bias, there is a word; andocentric. Andocentric means centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women. How does this related to Language? Everything we say is based on woman and how we not use word such as lady, woman, girl, and female with words. For example, (one word) Fireman; A person employed to extinguish or prevent fires. We think Fireman is a male who is a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires. When it comes to a woman who work for firefighter. We call them female fireman. That example is a good example meaning of bias.

Language is widely uses today. Six thousand, nine hundred and twelve languages in this world. Researcher still debating whether it comes from image thinking or our language effects image thinking. Linguists often think that thoughts and language are “Interdependent”. What is interdependent? Language and thoughts are depending on each others. Some researcher thinks that language can stand alone. Some researchers think they cannot. Point is that, those who don’t know any kinds of language still can think. They would use their thoughts to image something. To think the image, it doesn’t require a language to support their thoughts. Language helps us to understand the image clearly. Image thinking and language are important to our mind. One to four months old baby doesn’t need words to express what they want. If an infant wants milk, they would cry until they get what they want. They depend on image. Six thousand, nine hundred and twelve languages, they all aren’t based on words. Some of languages are image drawing. Those image drawing is still a language because it effects our thoughts. It’s very complicated how research works. I think they both can work together and separate ways.