Language and Thought

Abstract

After decades of neglect, the language and thought hypothesis—that the language we speak may influence the way we think—has recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest. This new wave of language and thought research capitalizes on gains in our linguistic knowledge of crosslinguistic semantic patterns and in the range and subtlety of psychological techniques now available. This new research has tackled a wide range of content areas, including space, time, motion, causality, the nature of the object concept, and theory of mind. This symposium presents methods and recent findings in this arena.