{"id":4297,"date":"2026-07-19T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:21:52","slug":"how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"How language shapes the way we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"How language shapes the way we think\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pi.tedcdn.com\/r\/talkstar-photos.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/7adc2250-de27-4116-b4ea-6fb4637ca98a\/LeraBoroditsky_2017W-embed.jpg?u%5Br%5D=2&amp;u%5Bs%5D=0.5&amp;u%5Ba%5D=0.8&amp;u%5Bt%5D=0.03&amp;quality=82&amp;c=1050%2C550&amp;w=1050\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.ted.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">How language shapes the way we think<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world &#8212; and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language &#8212; from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian &#8212; that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. &#8220;The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,&#8221; Boroditsky says. &#8220;Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.&#8221;<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}