Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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The answer to usual "Hello, where are you going" can be "North, Northeast how about you"

you always have to stay oriented, you can immediately say where southeast is

For example: east leg, move cup to the north, boy standing south of Mary

They always use points of the compass (north, east.., etc.) - absolute terms

Don't use relative terms, eg. left/right

Past

have you or someone else seen it?

Done/not done past

Many pasts in some languages

Time

Past/Future can be top-down, left-right, right-left, can be in front/in back or other way round

Bilinguals

Difference in results when tested in different language

Spatial metaphor

Time-travel

The importance of what a thing is called

Dry plums vs prunes

Bailout vs rescue plan

Research on blue

for Russians it's easier if they tel between the blues that they can distnguish "linguistically"

in Russian there are two blues

in English there is one blue

Gender in grammar

Flower

feminin in French

masculine in Russian

Statue of liberty

Art

Can language shape our thinking?