Lera Boroditsky's Interviews
The Futureproof Language Special
Language is fundamental to who we are and what has makes us so successful as a species, and while all species have their own means of communicating, we are the only ones that seem to have mastered it. But where did this ability to share complex ideas using sound come from? And what effect has it had on our development?
How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky ep. 448
There are about 7,000 languages in the world, all with different vocabularies, sounds, and alphabets—but how do these structural differences influence how we interpret the world? Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist recognized for studying how the languages we speak shape the way we think. After emigrating to A
89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Learning new languages can help us understand other cultures and countries. Cognitive science professor Lera Boroditsky says the languages we speak can do more than that—they can shape how we see the world in profound ways.
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