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IB Theory of Knowledge Topic 1.3 Optional Theme: Knowledge and Language (SL/HL) covers syllabus content. Use these Notes to review the topic, practise exam questions, and move between notes, videos, flashcards, and lessons where available.
1.3.1 How language carries knowledge
1.3.2 Naming and categorising
1.3.3 Metaphor as a thinking tool
1.3.4 Ambiguity, vagueness and precision
1.3.5 Does language shape thought?
1.3.6 Linguistic relativity: the careful version
1.3.7 Translation and what survives it
1.3.8 Untranslatable concepts
1.3.9 Jargon and technical language
1.3.10 Framing and euphemism
1.3.11 Rhetoric, persuasion and manipulation
1.3.12 Silence, taboo and the unsayable
1.3.13 Language and power
1.3.14 Non-verbal and symbolic communication
1.3.15 Language, harm and responsibility
1.3.16 Assessment bridge: language in the exhibition