added by Ben Percifield · updated 2y ago
This is how your language affects your thoughts
- We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
from Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words by Steph Smith
the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Essentially, this is the idea that the structure of a language determines a native speaker’s thinking.5
from The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
How Language Shapes Thought | Lera Boroditsky
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