Title: 20240124 How languages shape our mind
Course: Course Log Rrwcgroup5 2024-1

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
20240117
 How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- 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 -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

→ watch the video
→ answer the questions
 Zoom meeting details
RRWC group 5 - Duncan Potter's Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 799 4847 6862
Passcode: t19ibC
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79948476862?pwd=alnFnHoD8CXXjF5XClox5arfn84o0V.1