Lera Boroditsky

时间： 2010-03-16 14:00 - 16:00

地点： 哲学楼103房间

How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think? Do speakers of different languages think differently?  Does learning new languages change the way you think?  Do bilinguals think differently when speaking different languages?  Does language shape our thinking only when we're speaking or does it shape our attentional and cognitive patterns more broadly?  Is language merely a tool for expressing our thoughts or do the mechanics of the languages we speak shape the very thoughts we may wish to express?  In this talk I will describe several lines of research looking at cross-linguistic differences in thought.  The results demonstrate that the structures of the languages we speak importantly shape and construct our mental lives.

2010-03-16

2010-03-16