Thought or Language? Which is first?

It's the same question many important scientists have asked themselves and tried to reach an answer: which came first, the language or the thought? According to Saussure, they are both strongly relationed. He said that they are like a sheet of paper, in one side the thought and in the other one the language. You can't cut only one side of the paper. He defined two main points: langue and parole. The first one means the system of sings of the language and the second one, the langue used. 
For Noam Chomsky, there are other two points that should be defined: competence and performance, the first one being the sings that let us be creative with the language, and the other one being the language that is used. 



Aaron T. Beck, a famous psychiatrist, known as the father of cognitive therapy. He proposed that our emotions and behavior are caused by our internal dialogue.  This means that the language we express is a direct result of our thoughts. If we change the way we think, we can change permanently our expression. 

Bibliography:
English A: Language and Literature, Course Companion, Oxford. Allison, Rob; Chanen, Brian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_thought