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https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think/transcript
演讲摘要：
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”
演讲者简介：
Lera Boroditsky is an associate professor of cognitive science at University of California San Diego and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She previously served on the faculty at MIT and at Stanford. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart).
Boroditsky has been named one of 25 visionaries changing the world by the Utne Reader, and is also a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell scholar, recipient of an NSF Career award and an APA Distinguished Scientist lecturer. She once used the Indonesian exclusive “we” correctly before breakfast and was proud of herself about it all day.
现为加州大学圣迭戈分校（UCSD）认知科学副教授，Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 主编；曾供职于MIT、任斯坦福大学认知心理学副教授。Boroditsky的研究兴趣是：思维、世界、语言和认知的关系，并正在主持进行各类相关实验项目。因其杰出贡献，曾获“塞尔学者”（Searle Scholar）称号及其他荣誉。她对于语言、思想、认知关系的很多研究成果，都曾通过知名媒体进行过“科普”，包括：YouTube，Hulu，NRP，《科学美国人》和《华尔街日报》等，具有一定国际影响力。
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PS：Lera演讲中的主要内容曾通过其他出版渠道发表过，如果您想进一步了解，推荐阅读她在《认知心理学》上发表的文章 How Language Shapes Thought
https://www.gwashingtonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2013/10/23/68598699/sci-am-2011.pdf