How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 6.12.09
- Publisher
- Edge
- Retrieved
- Apr 26, 2013
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Examples of How Language Affects Cognition
Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Let's take a (very) hypothetical example. Suppose you want to say, "Bush read Chomsky's latest book." Let's focus on just the verb, "read." To say this sentence in English, we…
How Giving Nouns Genders Affects Thought
In Spanish and other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine. In many other languages, nouns are divided into many more genders ("gender" in this context meaning class or kind). For example, some Australian Aboriginal languages have up to sixteen genders, including classes of hunting weapons…