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An essay on the SWH in all but name.
An essay on the SWH in all but name.
kolin.rait · 2010-02-04 11:27 UTC · Tiki post #9492
By Lera Boroditsky
Abstract:
For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. Appreciating its role in constructing our mental lives brings us one step closer to understanding the very nature of humanity.
The author:
LERA BORODITSKY is an assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University, who looks at how the languages we speak shape the way we think.
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html
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An essay on the SWH in all but name.
lagejyspa · 2010-02-04 11:41 UTC · Tiki post #9548 · reply to Tiki post #9492
<[email protected]> wrote: > HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? [6.12.09] > By Lera Boroditsky >
Yesterday, I saw a newspaper headline -- "Police Injured on West
Side", and was thinking, "Gosh, if I were a speaker of Kuuk Thaayorre or Guugu Yimithirr, I'd think that meant "lo pulji cu se xrani fo lo za'i cortu lo stici be lo xadni be vo'a" instead of the intended "lo pulji cu se xrani bu'u lo stici be lo tcadu"
Gotta stop thinking so much....
--gejyspa
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