An Aspect of the Relationship between Language and Mental Structures

Abstract

One of the problems the EU has brought about is that of the language all the community members will communicate in with one another. In the Western civilization including the European countries and the United States, it is English that has increasingly been imposing itself, to the detriment of French, as early as the middle of the last century. Humboldt’s theory on the existence of some structural connections between language and culture or ethnicity, taken over by scholars in various fields who are referred to in this paper, points out the interdependence between language, thought, and psychosocial personality, and at the same time, the threats entailed when a language imposes itself. Moreover, the use of technical languages implies changes in human thinking. Confronted with these objective laws, the author of this paper asks himself what is to be done.