TOK Essay

Language is a universal way of communicating ideas, emotions, and descriptions. Through verbal language, humans can convey a variety of commands, expressions, and emotions. And through body language, we can convey pain and emotion. The capacity to communicate personal experiences and thoughts through language can affect knowledge; however the effect depends of the person and circumstance. This also applies to the dependency of language in terms of transmission and exposure of concepts. The dependency of the answer is always dependent on the individual themselves.

While language is a tool that allows us to communicate personal experiences, at times, it can be ineffective in allowing others to communicate true emotion and true expressions. In my Theory of Knowledge class, we completed a task in which we had to describe what one, seemingly normal, word meant personally to us. My classmates chose words such as “brother”, “mother”, “family”, “home”, and “red hair”. I personally chose the word “tomboy” because, to me, it represents how as a child I always wore oversized clothing and was an active child, which then was considered to be a male thing. And although I expressed how it was representational of how society perceives the perfect woman as a skinny, fashionable, and physically fit with narrow facial features, I never truly expressed the emotional aspect of my experience as a tomboy. I can never truly and exceptionally express the emotions I felt as a young child, being bullied and teased for the way I looked solely because only I have my perspective; no one person will be able to experience activities and situations I do because I am a lone sole, as is everybody else. The concept is similar to how trees are distinctively differen...

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...guage, but rather the use of visual perception, a subsection of sense perception, to massively expose her national stunt and allow for public scrutiny to occur.

Language, similar to all knowledge issues, is dependent on the circumstance of the situation in which the knowledge question is posed. Language can also affect the capacity of one when sharing personal experiences because of the conveyance of emotion is not always a true and concentrated version, but rather a diluted and falsified version. Language can be a necessary tool when dealing with the transmission of concepts from one generation or person to another, the exposure of concepts or claims to public scrutiny. Language can be both a universal and national tool and hence can both limit and enhance the delivery of sense perceptive stories, emotions, memories, imaginative scenes, and intuitive occurrences.