Transcription of Lost in Trarclation - Lera Boroditsky
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Lost in Trarclation - Lera Boroditsky
THE IIALI STREET JOURNAISATURDAY. JULY 2010, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights ReservedLost in TrarclationNew cognitiue research suggests thatlnngwqe proloundly infltrcnces thn wry peopln see the world ,; adilferent sense of blnme in lapanese and SpanishNow, a flurry of new cognitive scienceresearch is showing that in fact, lan-guage does profoundly influence how wesee the question of whether languagesshape the way we think goes back centu-ries; Charlemagne proclaimed that "tohave a second language is to have a sec-ond soul." But the idea went out of favorwith scientists when Noam Chomsky'stheories of language gained popularityin the 1960s and'70s.
exist in the world's languages. In Man-darin, the future can be below and the past above. In Aymara, spoken in South America, the future is behind and the past in front. In addition to space and time, lan-guages also shape how we understand causality. For example, English likes to describe events in terms of agents doing things. English ...
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