Constructions in Cognitive Contexts
Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research
Seiten
2016
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-045978-4 (ISBN)
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-045978-4 (ISBN)
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In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers’ cognitive contexts, i.e. their usage-preferences and entrenched patterns of linguistic knowledge, into the focus of investigation. It presents findings from original experimental research on spatial language use which indicate that these individual-specific factors indeed play a central role in determining whether or not differences in the current and/or habitual linguistic behaviour of speakers of German and English are systematically correlated with differences in non-linguistic behaviour (visual attention allocation to and memory for spatial referent scenes). These findings form the basis of a new, speaker-focused usage-based model of linguistic relativity, which defines language-perception/cognition effects as a phenomenon which primarily occurs within individual speakers rather than between speakers or speech communities.
In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers’ cognitive contexts, i.e. their usage-preferences and entrenched patterns of linguistic knowledge, into the focus of investigation. It presents findings from original experimental research on spatial language use which indicate that these individual-specific factors indeed play a central role in determining whether or not differences in the current and/or habitual linguistic behaviour of speakers of German and English are systematically correlated with differences in non-linguistic behaviour (visual attention allocation to and memory for spatial referent scenes). These findings form the basis of a new, speaker-focused usage-based model of linguistic relativity, which defines language-perception/cognition effects as a phenomenon which primarily occurs within individual speakers rather than between speakers or speech communities.
Franziska Günther, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 299 |
| Zusatzinfo | 74 b/w ill., 50 b/w tbl. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 878 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | Eye-Tracking • linguistic Relativity • Socio-Cognitive Linguistics • spatial language • sprachliche Relativität |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-045978-7 / 3110459787 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-045978-4 / 9783110459784 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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