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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on critical evaluation of the language hoax: why the world looks the same in any language by john h. mcwhorter.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on critical evaluation of the language hoax: why the world looks the same in any language by john h. mcwhorter. The stereotyping issue of assuming that people, whose language does not have tenses, do not think of the future and the assumption that language determines the way people view the world. These are the main issues addressed in this book. John tries to prove that people view the world in a similar way and that language does not determine the way an individual is thinking.

This book has four major arguments to justify his reasoning on why the world looks the same in any language. These arguments are based on human ways to process life, sociopolitical analysis issues and perspective of languages and dangers of language as a lens to view the world (McWhorter, 15). The author uses few examples to justify the four issues and the essence of generalizing all the languages in the world has brought various criticisms for his work. This essay is a review of his work to try to note the strengths and weaknesses of his work while identifying issues that are beneficial to the current society. The essay will thus tackle the assumptions giving a conclusion that will help the reader to identify if the criticism is justified or not. Lastly, in the conclusion, it will give some recommendations on the weaknesses of the author in his work to justify his assumptions.

McWhorter has discredited popular linguistics argued by the school of thoughts that languages that do not mark tenses do not think of the future. He states that there are different words that the language uses to indicate the future. He justifies this by giving an example of politeness. He states that in the English language, there is a pronoun or a single word that shows politeness but it is different in German, which uses several words or phrases for politeness (McWhorter, 24).

He argues that the notion of having a specific way of showing different tenses is wrong since languages are based on cultures.&nbsp.

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