"How the languages we speak shape the ways we think"

How do languages we speak shape the ways we think? Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages change the way you think? Do bilinguals think differently when speaking different languages? Does language shape our thinking only when we're speaking or does it shape our attentional and cognitive patterns more broadly? In this talk I will describe several lines of research looking at how speakers of Indonesian, Spanish, Mandarin, Greek, Kuuk Thaayorre and English talk about and think about events, causality, and (if there's time) time. The results show that languages help construct our representations of the world, yielding predictably different representations in speakers of different languages.