Paper 4 Section B
There are many different languages across the globe that are presented differently than the others. Their usage of language can be different tense, grammatically, and the way things are thought. The way language is spoken and understood is through the relationship between language and thought. Lera Boroditsky is a Standford researcher who described the relationship between thought and language with just the use of a teacup. Boroditsky would knock the cup off her table and in English, we would say, “She broke the cup.” However, in other languages, Japanese or Spanish, she explains that they would say, “The cup broke itself.” This is said if the cup broke on accident but, if it was done on purpose there’s a verb form to use. With this research, it can be shown that different languages have a variety of ways things are formatted differently based on actions and thoughts. The researcher, Lera Boroditsky, focused on the fundamental differences between cultures taking their relationship to s...