Question

Explain the element of language in the process of thinking.

Answer 1

"Thinking is the mental activity that uses various cognitive elements and processes that involves the manipulation of information, problem-solving, reasoning as well as decision making." If you analyse all the mental activities involved in thinking, you will find that thinking seems to be private and internal to ourselves. While thinking, we create a world within us and we run through various actions symbolically rather than in reality. 

The element of language in the process of thinking is explained as follows:

Language is a system of symbols. Mental representations, concepts and schemata are all better represented by language. For example, the word 'cat' stands for actual cat, so the word 'cat' is a symbol for a cat. Thinking by using language is a distinctive feature of a human being’s thinking process.