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Autore: | Günther Franziska |
Titolo: | Constructions in cognitive contexts : why individuals matter in linguistic relativity research / / Franziska Günther |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (494 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina: | 410.1835 |
Soggetto topico: | Sapir-Whorf hypothesis |
Cognitive grammar | |
Cognition | |
Language and culture | |
Psycholinguistics | |
Speech acts (Linguistics) | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Eye-Tracking |
Linguistic Relativity | |
Socio-Cognitive Linguistics | |
Spatial Language | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Constructions in cognitive contexts |
ISBN: | 3-11-045986-8 |
3-11-046134-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910796576903321 |
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