Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Eric Kattwinkel on 02 Sep 10Old ideas about language affecting thinking have been discredited, but more recent research has revived the idea, with important differences.
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Very intesting article about how our language affects the way we think. People who speak different languages adopt different "habits of mind" from an early age, and those habits can affect they way they experience the world. Especially fascinating is the discussion (2/3 of the way down) of languages that use a geographical, rather than egotistical, method for describing direction and relative position. (For example, the cup is resting on the north side of the west table in the southern room of the house.) How would a person with this type of view of the world experience a virtual environment? Also interesting implications for kids growing up with social media. Do new technologies impart habits of mind that affect the way kids learn?
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