holly Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Could I use a psychology experiment for an example? I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say the researcher's name but it's quite well known for you psychology people. It's about the reliability of memory - basically, memory can be manipulated, I suppose, depending on how a question is asked (the vocabulary used). What area of knowledge would that be? Human sciences? And, if I used Chinese & English as an example... what area of knowledge would that be? I know it's language for a way of knowing but the question asks for AoK... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amacklin3 Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Has anyone got any ideas of history examples for this?? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB Smacher Glau Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 This Website really helped me writing the TOK essay !! Click here Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaB Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I think it's important that you remind yourself that the claim is not about communicating something you know through vocabulary. It's about the way vocabulary shapes the way you think - how it makes us see things, how it motivates us, how it influences us etc. I've started writing my essay, and I realized all I was talking about was whether or not we need vocab to communicate something we know. But that's not what the claim wants us to evaluate. "Vocabulary shapes what we can know. Evaluate." - this is what we should focus on. Good luck everyone! 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryTClarke1 Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I am working on this topic for my final TOK assessment but am not quite sure how to go about it... Can someone post some Knowledge Issues on this site to give me something to bite my teeth into and work on my outline for my teacher... So far I have only one Knowledge Issue that relates to the topic and am struggling to find at least 4 more which flow with the first one...Here is my initial Knowledge Issue: 1. To what extent is the truth in communicated knowledge dependent on the language at our disposal?Thanks for your help. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB Smacher Glau Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I am working on this topic for my final TOK assessment but am not quite sure how to go about it... Can someone post some Knowledge Issues on this site to give me something to bite my teeth into and work on my outline for my teacher... So far I have only one Knowledge Issue that relates to the topic and am struggling to find at least 4 more which flow with the first one... Here is my initial Knowledge Issue: 1. To what extent is the truth in communicated knowledge dependent on the language at our disposal? Thanks for your help. here u go Possible Knowledge Issues 1. To what extent can vocabulary contribute towards knowledge? 2. Do issues of ambiguity and interpretation occur to the same extent in all areas of knowledge? 3. To what extent does vocabulary in each area of knowledge influence the knowledge aquisition in that area? 4. Does vocabulary give rise to knowledge that is only accessible to experts in areas of knowledge? 5. Is vocabulary transferable across areas of knowledge or is it only understandable in the context of an area of knowledge? 6. How do we know that vocabulary is not a hindrance to knowledge aquisition? 7. How do we know if our choice of vocabulary influences our knowledge construction? 8. How do we know if vocabulary shapes our knowledge or if our knowledge shapes our vocabulary? 9. Does some knowledge lie beyond language? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortytwo Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 Isn't The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the vocabulary does shape what we can know??? Am I wrong? In the text, it says ' Language determines our experience of reality, and we can see and think only what our language allows us to see and think.' .... OMG... TOK is so hard... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Inchan Jung Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Could I use a psychology experiment for an example?What area of knowledge would that be?If I used Chinese & English as an example... what area of knowledge would that be? I know it's language for a way of knowing but the question asks for AoK...I'll answer the questions chronologically.1. That is the Loftus and Palmer (1974) Eyewitness testimony. What does memory have to do with the vocabulary that shapes what we "know"?2. Human Sciences3. That wouldn't be an area of knowledge unless the Arts included some form of language, such as literature. Use pieces of literature of the same book, translated in both languages, and see how it changes what you know about it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
canarybird Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Does anyone have any examples for how this topic relates to ethics? I might be a little late... but in terms of Ethics, I remember seeing a video where they talked about the application of a culture's vocabulary in international relations. The example that they gave was that in one Chinese dialect, the words "power" and "right" (as in human right) mean the same thing. This ends up posing problems when Chinese diplomats try to communicate to diplomats from Western countries their concept of human rights. Don't know, it might help Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanSpencer Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) I don't think newspeak is a good example for this topic. You need to think more broadly, there are good ideas on this facebook site, but its getting too late now. The essays have to be submitted soon. Edited March 3, 2012 by JonathanSpencer Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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