Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-22

  Boroditsky, Lera ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Mandarin; Metaphor; Time; Whorf

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; METAPHOR; MULTILINGUALISM; STUDENTS; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035430237     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.2001.0748     Document Type: Article

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