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Lera Boroditsky

How language shapes the way we think

Seo Jin, Hyeon Min

Lera Boroditsky

- a cognitive scientist and professor.

Introduction of Speaker

Do you think the language we speak shapes the way

we think?

Examples we and speaker present

Direction

- Kuuk Thaayorre use cardinal direction words: North, South, East, and West

- Because of this trait of their language, their sense of direction is excellent

Direction

Guugu Yimithirr people

Guugu Yimithirr people

They also use words for absolute directions

: east, west, south and north.

This is because they don't see themselves

as the center of the world.

They also had excellent sense of direction.

Time

Korean and English users - from left to right

Time

Hebrew and Arabic users - from right to left

Kuuk Thaayorre tribe - from east to west

Counting

People who don't have exact number words.

can’t count or measure anything.

Counting

5 People

Colors

Users of Russian that has a lot of color words canㅜㅜ distinguish colors well

Colors

VS

Rainbow

Our example

Koreans: 7 colors

Mayan natives: 5 colors

Africans: 2 colors

Some other countries: 3 or 11 colors

Gender

There are feminine words and masculine words in particular languages.

Gender

EXAMPLE

ex)

Feminine

Masculine

German

The moon

The sun, bridge

Spanish

The sun, bridge

The moon

Our examples

French, Italian, and Spanish have the same origins of words but each word has a different grammatical gender.

Our example

Examples

Feminine

Masculine

Car, Clock

ㄹㄹSpanish

Example

Car, Clock

French

Italian

Clock

Focus

Focus

Languages are different in how they describe events depending on what they are paying attention to.

The Matisse tribe people

They speak a language that conveys only the information that is definitely true.

So they use different verbs or change their grammars depending on the point of when they learned the information or sources and reliability of them.

Our example

Our own examples

Our own Examples

Korean & Japanese

Korean example

Korean - "this side and that side"

Japanese - "that side and this side"

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'Thought police(사상경찰)'

removed words and forced

people to use "newly-selected words" to limit their emotions

and thoughts.

The Japanese empire's policy

During the Japanese occupation,

Japan forced us to use Japanese instead of Korean to limit the ethnicity.

Japanese occupation

Experiment about memory

Memory

Thai and Italian remember

the earlier things better.

Korean and Japanese remember

the later things better.

The value of languages

Diversity of Languages

Like these, the impact of language on the way of thinking is great

So we have to protect

the diversity of languages

Our own solutions

Our team thought about the way to protect lesser used languages.

Our own solutions

Global groups efforts

  • make 'lesser used languages' as cultural heritages

  • provide interpretation and transition services

  • reduce the use of 'most used languages

ㅎGlobal Organizations and groups

Languages users efforts

People who use such languages

  • develop their own languages
  • reduce the use of 'most used languages

  • continue to create new words

  • use their own languages more

Example

THANK YOU

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