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How Language Shapes Our Perception
"Does language shape what we perceive, a position associated with the late Benjamin Lee Whorf, or are our perceptions pure sensory impressions, immune to the arbitrary ways that language carves up the world? The latest research changes the framework, perhaps the language of the debate." The New York Times 04/22/08
Posted April 22, 2008 07:16 PM





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