I read something about Wernike’s aphasia or pure word deafness and wanted to share something about it. Well Wernikes is part in temporal lobe on damage of which person is able to hear sounds but not associate any meaning to it. That is he can even reproduce the sound/ word but cannot understand what it means. Our brain is a kind of parallel processor identification and association happens in different part of our brain.
Coming to more intriguing part where I am in doubt is that in earlier days IQ was associated with a person word power, but off late that concept has changed and more comprehensive ways of finding IQ have been designed vocabulary included. I however believe that vocabulary must be instead linked to EQ rather than IQ. If u notice the words that depict emotions have more synonyms, they have come because people found it exceedingly difficult to contain all their happiness/sadness in one word, their love in a single phrase. Again since brain is a parallel processor and words are stored separately, it’s not hard to believe that we store only those words which we need or use and perhaps understand. I believe that the words we use must then be a strong reflection of our emotional self rather than intellectual self. Again strong words reflect emotional strength or weakness. Strength in terms of stability per say that is a person whose language is very plain is emotionally stable/stoic and one with a richer language will tend to have more prominent mood swings and emotions.
A more comprehensive study of the subject will entail us to include other facets of language such as speech tones are more importantly body language. Body language in a way had been always a part of EQ parameter but language in general with it vocabularies and tones can give us a rather in depth idea of the emotional quotient of a person. More so a deeper study of the language used would reveal important behavioural traits. Language of a timid fearful person must have such inclination. All of us would have come across people who use the words like ‘God Forbid’ ‘Touch wood’ etc very frequently in their speech. Excessive use of abusive language is another common phenomenon that is seen among people which is indicative of behavioural patterns.
Words are an invention to which thoughts are the necessity. I strongly believe that as our thoughts, our imagination and our emotions grow or are consciously conceived by our mind, we need more and more words to describe them, give meaning to them. As a child we need to just cry to get our self expressed, then on from the limited vocabulary of a child to our adulthood we keep learning new words. Relative difference between people can be attributed to their emotional and intellectual thought processes and the need to express them thereof. Many a time words are reflection of our ego too, people tend to use more complicated vocabulary not as a part of need but as part of flare, use of lesser known synonyms without a justified need. It is not the need of thoughts but perhaps the need of the ego. What could be concluded for sure is that words convey much more than they apparently are meant to convey….they convey our state of mind, ego and perhaps much more
Coming to more intriguing part where I am in doubt is that in earlier days IQ was associated with a person word power, but off late that concept has changed and more comprehensive ways of finding IQ have been designed vocabulary included. I however believe that vocabulary must be instead linked to EQ rather than IQ. If u notice the words that depict emotions have more synonyms, they have come because people found it exceedingly difficult to contain all their happiness/sadness in one word, their love in a single phrase. Again since brain is a parallel processor and words are stored separately, it’s not hard to believe that we store only those words which we need or use and perhaps understand. I believe that the words we use must then be a strong reflection of our emotional self rather than intellectual self. Again strong words reflect emotional strength or weakness. Strength in terms of stability per say that is a person whose language is very plain is emotionally stable/stoic and one with a richer language will tend to have more prominent mood swings and emotions.
A more comprehensive study of the subject will entail us to include other facets of language such as speech tones are more importantly body language. Body language in a way had been always a part of EQ parameter but language in general with it vocabularies and tones can give us a rather in depth idea of the emotional quotient of a person. More so a deeper study of the language used would reveal important behavioural traits. Language of a timid fearful person must have such inclination. All of us would have come across people who use the words like ‘God Forbid’ ‘Touch wood’ etc very frequently in their speech. Excessive use of abusive language is another common phenomenon that is seen among people which is indicative of behavioural patterns.
Words are an invention to which thoughts are the necessity. I strongly believe that as our thoughts, our imagination and our emotions grow or are consciously conceived by our mind, we need more and more words to describe them, give meaning to them. As a child we need to just cry to get our self expressed, then on from the limited vocabulary of a child to our adulthood we keep learning new words. Relative difference between people can be attributed to their emotional and intellectual thought processes and the need to express them thereof. Many a time words are reflection of our ego too, people tend to use more complicated vocabulary not as a part of need but as part of flare, use of lesser known synonyms without a justified need. It is not the need of thoughts but perhaps the need of the ego. What could be concluded for sure is that words convey much more than they apparently are meant to convey….they convey our state of mind, ego and perhaps much more
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