Constructions in Cognitive Contexts : : Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research / / Franziska Günther.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Günther, Franziska,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 299
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XX, 494 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110461343; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110742978; 9783110485103; 9783110485257
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110461343
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Franziska Günther.

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.