How Does Language Shape the Way We Think? Cognitive Scientist Lera Boroditsky Explains

Imagine jellyfish dancing waltz in the library while thinking quantum mechanics. "If all of life is progressing smoothly," recognizing scientist Lera Boroditsky said at the TED speech above, "You may have never thought of this idea before." Ability to spread knowledge transcending our ideas and ideas in a wide space and time.

Although we are occasionally listening to the extinction rate of linguistic languages ​​- Boroditsky quotes some estimates to predict that half of the world's languages ​​disappeared in the second half of the century - but still many types of replicas there is. Does that mean that there is a fundamentally different way of thinking? In this talk and Edge.org's article, Boroditsky presents some interesting evidence that the language we speak affects our view of the world and our perception on it. These include Australian indigenous tribes and they always use the basic direction to describe the space ("Oh, there are ants on the southwest feet").

Mr. Boroditsky, an American born in Belarus, said, "Russian speakers have to distinguish between light blue gorboy and dark blue." "Testing the ability of people perceptually perceiving these colors showed that those who speak Russian were beyond the boundaries of this language and they can identify the difference between light blue and dark blue more quickly "There may be insignificant gaps in annoying perception, but how many such differences exist between languages, imagining how the habits they form are added Please give me.

"There is no necessity to go to the lab to see the impact of the languages ​​- you can see them in the art gallery," Boroditsky wrote in her fringe article. "How artists should decide to die and to be portrayed as male or female, it turns out that 85% of the personality is predicted by grammatical sex regardless of gender. In the mother tongue "More Germans depict death as a man, more Russians portrayed it as a woman. Personally, I hope that various ways that artists can speak various languages ​​of the world will make people think about the quantum mechanics of Waltz Jellyfish Thinking Library. However, before many languages ​​disappear, we recommend that you debug them as soon as possible.

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There are about 7,000 languages ​​in the world - they all have different sounds, vocabulary and structure. But will they affect our thinking? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shared examples of languages ​​- in the Australian indigenous community, to use the basic direction instead of using multiple words in Russian to the left or right. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us the ingenuity and flexibility of human thinking," Borodicki said. "Human thought did not invent the cognitive field, but invented 7000"

John and Ken introduced Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Stanford University. John Perry requests Lera to explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis described above. Is this language a direct jacket of thinking? Lela explains how the relationship between language and thought first attracts because different languages ​​explain the world in very different ways. She explains how different languages ​​use different gender, tense, and case, and how the speaker changes the way the speaker speaks about the world - mainly using different gender or tense or case Language to be. It must be applied in real world