{"id":111988,"date":"2020-08-27T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think"},"modified":"2020-08-27T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:26:23","slug":"how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think","title":{"rendered":"How language shapes the way we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-language-shapes-the-way-we-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be surprised by how much your language shapes your perspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world \u2014 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 \u2014 from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian \u2014 that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. \u201cThe beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,\u201d Boroditsky says. \u201cHuman minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll be surprised by how much your language shapes your perspective. There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world \u2014 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 \u2014 from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}