Research in my lab and in many others has been uncovering how language shapes even the most fundamental dimensions of human experience: space, time, causality and relationships to others. Let us ...

Languages are complex and our words are powerful. Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky discusses how even small variations in language may mean big... Does language shape how we think? Part 2 of the ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out.

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

Language shapes how we see the world. We use it to make sense of our reality. We use it to label people and things around us. Label something beautiful, and you acknowledge its uniqueness, elevate its ...

A subglacial river has carved out a cavern hundreds of meters beneath the Kamb Ice Stream, a West Antarctic glacier. Inside the dark, water-filled “cathedral,” scientists found signs of life, Douglas ...