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Cognitive Psychology43,1 22 (2001) , available online at onDoes Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and EnglishSpeakers Conceptions of TimeLera BoroditskyStanford UniversityDoes the Language you speak affect how you think about the world? This questionis taken up in three experiments. English and Mandarin talk about time differently English predominantly talks about time as if it were horizontal, while Mandarin alsocommonly describes time as vertical. This difference between the two languages isreflected in the way their speakers think about time. In one study, Mandarin speakerstended to think about time vertically even when they were thinking for English ( Mandarin speakers were faster to confirm that March comes earlier than April ifthey had just seen a vertical array of objects than if they had just seen a horizontalarray, and the reverse was true for English speakers).
May 03, 2001 · ines whether different ways of talking about time lead to different ways of thinking about it. Time in English In English, we predominantly use front/back terms to talk about time. We can talk about the good times ahead of us or the hardships behind us. We can move meetings forward, push deadlines back, and eat dessert before we
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