How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky ep. 448
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
There are about 7,000 languages in the world, all with different vocabularies, sounds, and alphabets—but how do these structural differences influence how we interpret the world?
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist recognized for studying how the languages we speak shape the way we think.
After emigrating to America from Belarus, Lera learned English and began to recognize how differences in languages can shape an argument and exaggerate the differences between others.
Today, Lera shares how people view the world differently based on their linguistic backgrounds and how her research has provided influential insight in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
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| 0:53.3 | John O'Leary. |
| 0:54.7 | John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire. |
| 0:58.9 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life |
| 1:12.8 | story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast |
| 1:20.9 | with John O'Leary. Did you know that there are 7,000 languages in the world? |
| 1:29.8 | But you didn't know that one. |
| 1:31.2 | Did you know that each of those 7,000 languages have their own vocabularies, their own sounds, their own alphabets? |
| 1:38.6 | Have you ever wondered, though, how these structural differences influence how we interpret the world? |
| 1:44.6 | Lira Baraditsky is a cognitive scientist recognized for studying how the languages we speak |
| 1:50.1 | shape the way we think. I'm going to say that again. This is a big deal. The languages we speak |
| 1:55.8 | actually alter and shape the way we think. After immigrating to the United States, after growing up in the |
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