Constructions in Cognitive Contexts : : Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research / / 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 investi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XX, 494 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |