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Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in California. She studies language and cognition, specifically focusing on the use of metaphors and the ways in which language shapes thought. Her work has revolutionized this field on the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think (commonly known as the Whorfian question). She has discovered many examples of cross-linguistic differences in thought and perception that stem from syntactic or lexical differences between languages. This work has changed the predominant belief in the fields of psychology, philosophy and linguistics that human cognition is largely universal and independent of language and culture. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, a long-term supporter of universalism has said in interviews that Boroditsky is "a force to be reckoned with." Jump to: navigation, search For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Look up Cognition on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term cognition is used in several different loosely related ways. ...
In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
She has also worked extensively on issues of time-space metaphoric representations. One relevant issue here is of how people tend to think of time by using spatial metaphors (i.e. "Christmas is coming" or "We're getting closer to the holidays.") She argues that there are two distinct ways of using space-time metaphors: ego-moving (EM) and time-moving (TM) perspectives. The EM perspective is when one thinks of themself as moving through a static time, and is seen when we say things like "We're coming up on summertime." The TM perspective is when one sees themselves as unmoving and time as a moving object, such as a river or a conveyor belt. As time moves, we encounter different events along the time line. This is shown with the sentence "The meeting is coming up soon." Jump to: navigation, search Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...
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