Cognitive Linguist, University of California, Berkeley
George Lakoff is a renowned cognitive linguist known for his work on the relationship between language and thought, particularly how language shapes our understanding of the world.
Some emotions don't travel across languages — the Japanese komorebi, the Portuguese saudade, the German Weltschmerz — and something gets lost when you try to translate who you are into a language that wasn't built to hold it. George Lakoff, Lera Boroditsky, and John McWhorter examine what happens to the self when words run out.
