"Dan Cline" <paul_leto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Dec 13, 4:10 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > It didn't bother me, though sometimes there was an awefull lot of it.
>>
>> Do you think that it was an excellent way to depict thinking in a
science
>> fiction novel?
>
> There is a theory that states "without language there would be no
> thought".
Hi Dan. I wonder if you mean the Sapir-Worf hypothesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis
> I don't subscribe entirely to this idea, but I do a lot of
> my thinking in sentences. I also remember watching a do***entary on
> feral children who were never socialized and could not speak. They had
> black shadows in areas of the brain that normal people have active.
> Basically they were brain dead because of a lack of language.
How might Frank Herbert depict the thoughts of such children? I wonder. .
.
>
> I love that Frank Herbert used italics to show the thoughts,
> especially when the character did not act on what they were thinking,
> or said something different than what they thought.
>
You mention a very interesting point here. I suppose that nonverbal
thinking could be depicted in a novel by a narrative description of a
character's behavior, e.g., their eye movements, facial expressions and
body
language.
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