The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis explores the idea that language helps shape our worldviews and perceptions in many ways.

The way a language encodes gender suggests a subtle link to how its speakers view their own personalities. A recent study ...

Linguistic relativity in motion event cognition examines how the grammatical and lexical conventions of different languages shape the way speakers perceive, encode and remember dynamic scenes of ...

What if our language isn't just shaping our sentences – it's scripting our reality? The theory of linguistic relativity explains this rhetorical question that the language we speak doesn't just ...

Languages differ in how they describe motion events. For example, given a motion event, the grammar of English draws attention to the trajectory and endpoint of the motion event equally (for example, ...