Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on how language influences thought and perception across cultures.
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.
