Constructions in cognitive contexts : why individuals matter in linguistic relativity research / / Franziska Günther

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825549003321
• Autore: Günther Franziska
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-11-045986-8; 3-11-046134-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (494 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; ; Volume 299
• Disciplina: 410.1835
• Soggetti: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Cognitive grammar; Cognition; Language and culture; Psycholinguistics; Speech acts (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Constructions in cognitive contexts -- 2. Setting the theoretical scene -- 3. Construing spatial scenes in German and English -- 4. Attention, 'ception' and language: Basic considerations -- 5. Constructions as [form-construal meaning]- associations -- 6. Spatial language, cognition and perception: Methods and hypotheses -- 7. Experiment 1 - linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: Patterns of language- and speaker-specific variation -- 8. Experiment 2 - linguistic and non-linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: The role of cognitive contexts -- 9. Conclusion: Constructions, cognition, cognitive contexts and beyond -- References -- Appendix -- Author index -- Topic index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.