Categorias: Todos - orientation - metaphor - gender - language

por Paweł Badeński 12 anos atrás

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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

The manner in which different languages structure their grammar and vocabulary can significantly influence cognitive processes. For instance, some languages, like Kuuk Thaayorre, rely on absolute spatial terms such as north, south, east, and west, compelling speakers to maintain constant spatial awareness.

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Kuuk Thaayorre

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?