[4] When she was 12 years old, her family emigrated to the United States, where she learned to speak English as her fourth language.

She became an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT before she was hired by Stanford in 2004.

Boroditsky is professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Her work has provided new insights into the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think (Linguistic relativity).

Her papers and lectures have influenced the fields of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in providing evidence and research against the notion that human cognition is largely universal and independent of language and culture.

[7] In addition, Boroditsky gives popular science lectures to the general public, and her work has been covered in news and media outlets.

On the individual level, Boroditsky is interested in how the languages we speak influence and shape the way we think.

The frequent use of a mental metaphor connects it to the abstract concept and helps the mind to store non-concrete informations in the long-term memory.

Her work has suggested that some conventional and systematic metaphors influence the way people reason about the issues they describe.