Book Report of "Language in My Thought and My Action"

Book Report of "Language in My Thought and My Action"

Reading Assignment – "Language in Thought and Action" by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa book report

Language in my Thought and my Action

Since I was born, I have been learning languages consciously and unconsciously without asking why. S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action remind me the goal of the study of language – to learn to think more clearly, to speak and to write more effectively, and to listen and to read with greater understanding.



This book is divided into 2 parts, the functions of language and language and thought. The deepest debt of the author in this book is to the general semantics. It is designed to educate the reader using concepts that are first explained in straightforward terms ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Learning from Obama, I should take advantage of informative connotation to delivery the news and use affective language like humor and familiar language to grab reader or audience's sight. It helps rating of the show.



The Open and Closed Mind

Hayakawa summarized The Open and Closed mind on pages 131–3. It tells that people with closed minds apparently feel threatened and fearful. If someone trusted the speaker, but rejected his statement, he would view the speaker as unconsciously on the enemy side. If someone rejected the speaker, the statement is unacceptable to him too. He rejects both. They are two–valued people, which have to like everything about the speaker or nothing. Reasonably secure and well organized persons enjoy their own belief system, but they are also open to information about their disbeliefs system. They can empathize with persons who hold others ideas that they do not believe in, is to have an open mind.



A question raised up in my mind is that, am I a news anchor with an open mind? Theoretically, anchor should be open–minded, to writing the true story and report the fact o the audiences. But, if I am a closed–mind anchor, I know in advance which side I am on, and engage the correspondent or accept the article that will give aid and comfort to that side. Forsaking the obligation to illuminate, I may turn on the heat. However, the result is inevitable: the other side fights back. But in this world, whatever the country is

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