A look at the ways that the construction of language can have implications for the way we think, act and parse the world around us.
https://ideas.ted.com/5-examples-of-how-the-languages-we-speak-can-affect-the-way-we-think/
* Jessica Gross * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * More * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) * Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) * Could your language affect your ability to save money? * So he designed a study * writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal * PDF * PDF * study done in the 1980s