Title: The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Author: Viorica Marian
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Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 6:31:38 AM
Language as the key to reaching heaven certainly asserts its power.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:27:52 AM
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:29:33 AM
Some are like poetry. They are all languages
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:29:53 AM
These are the codes of our minds.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:30:39 AM
learning another language opens up another way of coding reality and new ways of thinking.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:41:29 AM
language functions as a vehicle for culture, and changing languages also switches cultural frameworks.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:43:03 AM
Which is also why some multilinguals prefer the use of a non-native language when they feel they need some emotional distance.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:45:36 AM
We could even say that honesty speaks louder in a second language.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024 6:31:33 AM
(location, motion, and orientation),
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024 6:35:36 AM
Creativity, it turns out, takes time, discipline, and either sacrifices or resources or both.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024 6:36:24 AM
Obama’s words from the 2004 Democratic National Convention, “in no other country on Earth is my story even possible”: in no other language is my writing this book possible.
Date: Friday, May 17, 2024 6:34:10 AM
One of the most unique aspects of language is that it allows us to combine a finite number of words to express an infinite number of thoughts, feelings, and actions. The
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:38:50 AM
the brain is in fact not modular.
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:40:19 AM
The principle behind emergence was described mathematically by Alan Turing to demonstrate that a complex organism could assemble itself without a master planner.
Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 6:04:47 AM
“bite the mother, fight the daughter”
Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 6:19:04 AM
The incidence of Alzheimer’s continued to decrease with each additional language, and there was a direct relationship between the number of languages spoken in a country and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 6:27:45 AM
It seems that because bilingual children must learn to pay extra attention to the language of the person they are interacting with, they develop sociolinguistic sensitivity earlier.
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 6:29:07 AM
perceptual narrowing, neural pathways corresponding to native phonemes are strengthened, while those corresponding to foreign sounds are pruned.
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 6:33:35 AM
mainstream English-only classroom, a bilingual two-way immersion (TWI) program that combined the majority language (English) and the minority language (Spanish), or a transitional English-as-a-second-language (ESL) program.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:23:52 PM
Whether you are a surgeon performing an operation, a sniper scoping a target, or a farmer tending to your crops, you need to be able to pay attention to what is relevant and ignore what is irrelevant to complete the task at hand.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:34:23 PM
If the brain is an engine, bilingualism appears to improve its mileage, allowing it to go further on the same amount of fuel.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:36:20 PM
know I am not smart, but when I look around, I gain courage.”)
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:37:24 PM
Just as H₂O can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas depending on temperature, a person can be a different version of themselves depending on which language they are using.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:39:13 PM
Switching languages changes the patterns in which a person behaves with their family.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:40:54 PM
It seems that bilinguals not only use different spoken codes when switching languages but also change their nonverbal communication and body language.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 3:43:10 PM
“The Framing Effect.”
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:34:21 PM
on whether a native or second language is used. The native language generally elicits stronger emotional responses, likely because it is more often acquired in emotionally rich contexts.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:40:39 PM
Even when the content of a message is fully understood, receiving a reprimand, discussing a distressing experience, or reading an emotional passage are likely to be more evocative in a native language.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:41:02 PM
“I love it when you call me señorita,” she expresses what all speakers of multiple languages know—that words vary in the intensity and valence of the emotions they elicit in each language.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:47:20 PM
shame and modesty). It can be argued that multilinguals, as a result of having a larger repertoire of words for labeling emotions across their languages, are able to experience more emotions.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:48:43 PM
In addition to shaping how we feel, perceive, and think about the world, language also shapes what we remember.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:54:07 PM
Through language co-activation at the time of encoding Through language-dependent memory Through the labels used in remembering
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:56:36 PM
With language, in the same way, the likelihood of remembering something increases if you are using the same language that was used when the original event occurred.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:57:36 PM
Even recalling knowledge in subjects like biology, chemistry, history, and mythology can be subject to a match between the language used at the time of learning and the language used at the time of testing.
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:11:34 PM
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,”
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:18:03 PM
1979 “Disease Problem.”
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:22:56 PM
“My language is my awakening,”
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:23:49 PM
It is no surprise that language affects our choices, but such decisions are not just about our own lives.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:25:37 PM
In countries all around the world, be they democracies or autocracies, words are selected and new labels are created not because they perfectly reflect what they label but to change the perception of what they stand for.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:29:15 PM
To forbid not only certain words but entire languages is to forbid a certain way of thinking and of being in the world.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:31:21 PM
“Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:32:51 PM
In its simplest explanation, clusivity refers to whether the pronouns we and our/s (as opposed to you and your/s) include or do not include the person you are speaking to.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:33:43 PM
audience in the intended grouping. Politicians adjust the way they speak according to the audience they are speaking to.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:33:50 PM
Politicians adjust the way they speak according to the audience they are speaking to.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:37:53 PM
Advertising of potato chips targeted toward consumers of high socioeconomic status differs from advertising of chips targeting consumers of lower socioeconomic status.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:38:28 PM
More generally, research on the language of food advertising reveals that advertising of more expensive foods focuses on what the product does not include (less fat, no artificial ingredients, never tested on animals), whereas the language of less expensive foods focuses on what is included (30 percent more, now bigger).
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:39:20 PM
The effect of language in politics and advertising is so strong that the same person can even hold different political beliefs when using one language versus another.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:39:52 PM
More generally, using a foreign language evokes less extreme emotion when judging moral transgressions.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:42:13 PM
No language is static. Every year new words are added to dictionaries while others are removed as obsolete.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:43:26 PM
“plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same). Consider
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:46:21 PM
Accent modification is one of the most lucrative services provided by speech and language therapists, despite the ethical questions inherent in changing how one talks to conform to narrow social stereotypes.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:50:24 PM
Language is highly effective in activating stereotypes.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:51:02 PM
attitudes are affected by the language in which they are expressed, shifting in ways that reflect the cultural values embedded in that language.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:52:00 PM
Direct versus indirect requests vary depending on how much emphasis cultures place on social cohesion and harmonious relationships, and how they define politeness.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:54:15 PM
Simply being aware that a person or group of people sees things differently in part due to their native language should increase the effort and thought devoted to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:55:50 PM
The boundaries between dialects and languages are somewhat arbitrary.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:57:20 PM
Rather, they were decided by political ideology. Languages and dialects have always been heavily politicized around the world and used to incite and subdue national movements and national identity.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:58:47 PM
Many of the grammatical and phonological structures of African American English that are in contrast to Standard American English are patterns that are present in West African languages.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:59:37 PM
humans need language to survive. When deprived of it, we generate languages ourselves.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 5:01:32 PM
Code-switching conceals impressive cognitive dexterity.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 5:04:18 PM
Some argue that AAE is “bad” English and that it limits opportunities for its speakers, ultimately restricting upward social mobility.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:35:41 PM
Those whom my ancestors called relatives were renamed natural resources.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:36:00 PM
What we think influences the language we use, and the language we use influences what we think—and how we act. In English, inanimate objects are generally referred
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:36:11 PM
water, plants, and soil sustaining life itself? What we think influences the language we use, and the
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:36:19 PM
What we think influences the language we use, and the language we use influences what we think—and how we
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:36:32 PM
What we think influences the language we use, and the language we use influences what we think—and how we act.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:40:42 PM
and social media. Gender stereotypes influence our perceptions not only of inanimate items but also of people, including ourselves, and shape the lives we live.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:40:52 PM
Gender stereotypes influence our perceptions not only of inanimate items but also of people, including ourselves, and shape the lives we live.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:42:55 PM
our names can influence the associations activated in people’s minds.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:46:52 PM
parents, like so many others, believed that a person’s name can influence how they are perceived, their personality, and hence their life path—beliefs that both reflect and contribute to social biases).
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:47:17 PM
difference does not equal disorder.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:48:40 PM
Mismatch in language, communication styles, cultural values, and expectations can cause underutilization, noncompliance, or premature termination of services by linguistically and culturally diverse individuals and families.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 10:54:58 PM
Being aware of the complexity of the interpreting dynamics, acknowledging them, and openly discussing them can help relieve some of the pressure experienced by all parties.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:09:27 AM
Would we rather pay the salaries of teachers and school principals to support bilingual education or those of prison guards and wardens
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:09:36 AM
Would we rather pay the salaries of teachers and school principals to support bilingual education or those of prison guards and wardens as the consequences of not doing the former?
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:10:40 AM
yet many immigrants would like nothing more than to assimilate, integrate, and be perceived as American above their original national identity.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:11:14 AM
The likelihood of learning another language is influenced not only by where you live but also by your socioeconomic class.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:12:21 AM
society perceives multilingualism in different socioeconomic classes is rooted in biases that have nothing to do with the effects of multilingualism.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:13:25 AM
What you see on the surface—words, grammar, pronunciation, speech comprehension—is just the tip. What is underneath—meaning, analysis, synthesis, evaluation—is much deeper, weightier, and more valuable.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:20:18 AM
non-immigrant minority groups still value education and view it as desirable and important for advancement and believe that it will improve status and lead to better jobs.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:24:12 AM
In the dialogues, when asked by Cratylus and Hermogenes whether names are “natural” or “conventional,” Socrates responds that combinations of sounds express the essence of a word’s referent and that some sounds are best to describe the flow of water, others motion, and so on.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:28:10 AM
The bouba-kiki effect refers to experiments in which people are presented with two shapes, like the ones in the figure below, and asked which one is a bouba and which one is a kiki.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:30:30 AM
alliteration (repetition of identical initial sounds); rhyme (repetition of similar final sounds); and
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:33:47 AM
translating poetry, the challenge is not just about relaying the meaning but also reflecting the sounds, the syntax, the structure, the cadence, the rhyme, the meter, the texture, the associations, the affect, the allusions, and the layers of meaning—
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:35:13 AM
for speakers of no language are more soulful than speakers of another language,
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:36:17 AM
a way, poetry is its own language, or rather, it creates a language—and with it, a universe—of its own.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 11:36:53 AM
“poets … muddy their waters to make them appear deep.”
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:12:06 PM
Regardless of whether it is the government or the private sector, success will depend on the ability to recruit and train the best learners, users, and creators of multiple symbolic systems.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:13:16 PM
multiple languages beget more creative minds, and more creative minds beget more advanced languages.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:16:43 PM
Progress in programming, mathematics, and artificial intelligence historically has gone hand in hand with progress in symbolic notation.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:17:57 PM
Artificial languages are useful tools for studying language acquisition by controlling for the immense variability that exists within natural languages.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:21:55 PM
To date, math and computer science go hand in hand.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:22:28 PM
Some see the relationship between math and artificial intelligence as analogous to the relationship between language and human intelligence, with the limits of that similarity and the differences between the two types of mappings intensely debated.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:25:48 PM
math is the language of the universe, then it is not surprising that other species have mathematical abilities as well.
Date: Monday, December 16, 2024 10:31:56 PM
Most multilinguals, even highly fluent ones and those who have used their second language as their primary language for many years, will often revert to their first language when performing mathematical computations.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:44:50 AM
The psycholinguistic version of the chicken-and-egg question is what comes first—thought or language?
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:48:03 AM
If language and thought are two sides of the same coin (an arguable view, as we saw in the discussion of linguistic determinism), then language would have to be derived from a source outside the human realm, because thought is impossible without language and before language there would have been no thought.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:56:25 AM
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:59:42 AM
Progress in science and innovation is proportional to the investments made into them.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 9:01:53 AM
Neurotree is a web-based database for academic genealogy that is similar to a conventional genealogy or family tree, but instead of showing connections among individuals who are kin (like parents to children), it shows connections among scholarly mentors and disciples (like doctoral advisors and their trainees) and contains hundreds of thousands of scholars going back centuries.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 9:09:29 AM
We may not know where languages and their evolution will take us, but one thing is certain: we cannot get far without them.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 9:30:27 AM
Like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 9:41:22 AM
course, because it is not a controlled experiment, it is impossible to know to what extent this proclivity for languages comes from a genetic predisposition as opposed to extensive exposure to multiple languages during childhood.