{"id":814,"date":"2015-07-10T15:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2015-07-10T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T13:51:28","slug":"steven-pinker-on-what-our-language-habits-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/steven-pinker-on-what-our-language-habits-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Pinker on what our language habits reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog is bringing you another video from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED series<\/a>. TED (Technology, Education, Design) is an international and interdisciplinary conference series based around the concept \u201cideas worth spreading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this talk, world-famous linguist\u00a0Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds \u2014 and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This video is suitable for a variety of levels. Higher-level English learners (B2+ and up) should just watch it as it is below. Intermediate students (B1+ \u2013 B2) \u2013 you can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought?language=en#t-103092\">the video on the TED website<\/a> and\u00a0turn on the English subtitles. Lower-level learners (up to B1+) can turn on the German (or the language of your choice) subtitles, as well as look at a full transcript of the talk. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_23059\"  width=\"604\" height=\"453\"  data-origwidth=\"604\" data-origheight=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjQM8PzCEY0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog is bringing you another video from the TED series. TED (Technology, Education, Design) is an international and interdisciplinary conference series based around the concept \u201cideas worth spreading\u201d. In this talk, world-famous linguist\u00a0Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds \u2014 and how [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,21,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}