Constructions in Cognitive Contexts: Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research
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Author | Franziska, Günther |
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ISBN | 9783110459784 |
Published Language | English |
Publication Year | 2016 |
Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton |
Binding | Hardback |
Original Price | €120.00 |
Pages | 494 |
Ships By | 2-3 days |
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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.
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