A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.
Categories: Social Sciences
