Language & Meaning: Let's Discuss
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2024
- This brief episode tries to explore the ultimate linguistic puzzle: the meanings behind our words. Join me, Steven Pinker, your guide through the labyrinth of language, as we delve into the realm of semantics and perception.
In this episode, we're not just skimming the surface-we're diving deep into the murky waters of meaning. The slightest shift in semantics or syntax can alter our understanding and perception of reality and neither children nor philosophers are immune.
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I really really really wish Steven pinker reads this , I love you so much , you are the best❤ sincere respect to you sir.
In programming there is this joke that goes like "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
Naming variables, functions, classes, modules is actually a damn hard problem to crack. Refactoring code is in fact an act of crafting better names for things so the unnecessary/convoluted code stands out and removed.
I hope Steven is publishing something new! Especially excited if some more psychology and/or language.
What I think might be happening, is that with languages we don't just use words or verb phrasals, but usually we'll construct entire sentences in our brain, as shown in this video in typical ways. It's as if we don't just memorize words on their own, but memorize the ways in which those words are used in relation to other words in a sentence. So there is a structured way the word is used. English seems to be quite flexible on how things are expressed, however, it also means that you have to not only learn the individual words, but also the way in which you would use these words in sentences and I think native speakers just memorize this. I see these differences between British and American English, where British people will say something in a way that sounds novel and fresh to American ears, but is actually just how they normally say what they're trying to say.
Another thing that is interesting is that people do actually sometimes speak with unusual sentences, when speaking. We might say, "I was, over there, in the park, with friends, together," and I've added commas to represent the pauses. As we speak, for example, we often don't know exactly what we'll say, since we're spontaneously saying something, but we might change our mind or correct ourselves as we're talking so it causes these weird sentence structures in speech, that are usually still understandable.
I've thought about this before, and I'm glad this video became a great opportunity to talk about this.
It can be very telling to how a person perceives reality by the way they organise their sentences.
Sort of like how is someone uses "him" in front of you while you're in the room can seem quite rude, because it shows the distance of the relationship.
I live in Thailand. I encounter these linguistic issues constantly with learning the Thai language.
As someone whose native language is not English, the difference between "pour" and "fill" is obvious to me and why they are not interchangeable in their meanings.
Someone "pouring" water on someone's head is very different than someone "filling" someone's head with water.
That was a good book. They have recently discovered our brains process language and thoughts in different regions seeming to prove language isn't required for thinking and reasoning. I wonder if this changes things?
Good to see Steve Pinker on YT. Wondering - what about reality in some languages where word-order really does not matter? It seems comprehension of what is conveyed depends on the language used. One philosophical system which deals with understanding words and sentences and meaning stipulates that the speaker and hearer must know the language. So their reality is dependent on their knowing that language...
Another big clue for you... dimension means... diameter magnitude!
Go deeper man. Words and thus meaning are based on polarization... The Delusion...Of Duality!☯️
The Stuff of Thought was a great book
You know of any finnish? The cases are 4 for free word order, then 3*3 consisting of internal, external, and an abstract trinity of ->
Hey this is the Steven Pinker from the Epstien flight logs?
At 3:33, does the idea of perceiving the bottom of the cube break anyone else’s RUclips?
i may be nutty, but Steven reminds me of Rob Lowe. Those eyes...
what's with the creepy cut @3:33
Likening "pour"and "fill" is a bad example, You can fill something without pouring anything, and you can pour something without filling anything. The two are simply different words with different meanings.
Words... begin in heaven and end... in hell!
Meaning is so fake as people do not say what they mean, so in the end there is not much meaning going round..🤷.
Pinker - smart guy but his haircut annoys me. Interestingly his hairstyle and the shirt & tie are as incongruous as some of the linguistic examples he uses about word choice and order.
Behavioral or cognitive psychology, what a non sense field and rant