Does language shape the way we think?
July 28th, 2010 in
Language News
In an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, Lera Boroditsky, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, states "… If people learn another language, they inadvertently also learn a new way of looking at the world. When bilingual people switch from one language to another, they start thinking differently, too." Language is much more than mere words describing concepts.