That there are forces that imposing certain structures on ourselves you know we all take the language that we speak for granted its like the air that we breathe we dont notice it and in fact most of us believe that we simply perceive reality the way that it is in fact we know through many years of psychological experiments so thats very far from the truth we dont see things just the way that they are instead the world that we the internal world we live in is highly constructed by the structures of our brains but also by the structures of our languages and cultures that tell us how to put things together we often talk about the symbiotic and reinforcing relationship with bin language and culture and its very hard for me personally to resist thinking about that relationship in cheek in that terms enough to sort of struggling with it for some time i wonder if its actually a fitting metaphor or not in terms of what comes 1st but the terms of how the to encapsulate reproduce one in. There y
When theyre speaking one language or not there or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less intent of language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costume. People are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him 53 percent more in fines than if we say the costume ripped even though theyre watching the same video now you mention. Language to universally distribute certain practices in english clearly is the lingo of all. Times. Do we understand the are there any indications of why it has been able to gain such a status isnt because its relatively easy to learn compared to other languages are other perhaps other. Factors contributing to that. Probably economic factors are the most important where English Speaking countries are driving a lot of Economic Growth and a lot of innovation that spreads to the res
The curse aeration rates in the United States and the russia being among the worlds highest its really hard to draw a Straight Line from language to a statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to a lot is that even possible do you think you can design a study like this to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is because if were going country by country there arent actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power thats a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. Blame and punishment when theyre speaking one language or another or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less attentive language and see if they make different judgments use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe off
A statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to or a lot is that even possible do you think you can design a study like to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is because if were going country by country there arent actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power thats a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. Blame and punishment when theyre seeking one language or another or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less intent of language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costume. People are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him 53
The loss of our living with cancer in 920 why then the following century of booming linguistic studies have only confirmed that if our language is indeed shaped by us as much as we think we shape them do we ever really speak our mind to discuss that im now joined by letter but i didnt ski associate professor of cognitive science at the university of california san diego professor bard its a pleasure and honor to talk to thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having me now i know that you have long been studying the relationship with the band the mind the language and the world around us and i think you come to some very humbling conclusions that as much as real like to see ourselves as the masters of our thought and our warrants it works in the opposite direction to our language shapes our experience in some very profound ways how does it work well of course we all have many years of experience speaking a language and we absorb so many. We have it in so many important str