Lera boroditsky biography of barack

American cognitive scientist

Lera Boroditsky (born c^[1]) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity.^[2] She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of a National Science Foundation Career award, and an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist.^[3] She is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.

She previously served on the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Stanford University.

Early life and education

Boroditsky was born in Belarus to a Jewish family.^[4] When she was 12 years old, her family emigrated to the United States, where she learned to speak English as her fourth language.^[4][1] As a teenager she began thinking about the degree to which language differences could shape an argument and exaggerate