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Language and Thought: Why Rhetoric Works

Language and Thought: Why Rhetoric Works

by Anna Johansen | Dec 20, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, Technique

Let’s say you’re visiting Australia. On the western edge of Cape York Peninsula, there’s a group of people called the Kuuk Thaayorre. The language they speak doesn’t have words for left or right, forward or back. Instead, its speakers describe locations using north,...

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