PhD Seminar — HOW THE LANGUAGES WE SPEAK SHAPE THE WAYS WE THINK

Seminar

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Date

04 Dec 2024
Organiser

PolyU Design
Time

11:00 - 13:00
Venue

Zoom

Speaker

Prof. Lera Boroditsky

Enquiry

PolyU Design 2766 6305 sd.phd@polyu.edu.hk

Summary

Language allows us a myriad way to construe everything from basic physical features like colours and shapes to complex societal issues like crime or immigration. When we choose particular linguistic frames, we invite others into our pathways for thinking, making some elements of an issue seem obvious while obscuring others. Dr Lera Boroditsky will highlight some of the fundamental ways that languages differ and how these systematic differences guide our thinking.

All PolyU PhD students and SD staff are welcome.
This Zoom meeting accommodates 100 participants at most.
Event registration is required and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom meeting details before the event.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Lera Boroditsky

Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

Dr Lera Boroditsky is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. She previously served on the faculty at MIT and at Stanford and as editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart). Her TED talk on how language shapes thinking has been viewed more than 22 million times. Boroditsky has been named one of 25 visionaries changing the world by the Utne Reader, and is also a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of an NSF CAREER award and an APA Distinguished Scientist lecturer. She once used the Indonesian exclusive "we" correctly before breakfast and was proud of herself about it all day.