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Jul 26, 2016 · This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues.
- John A. Lucy
- 2016
Oct 15, 2020 · Empirical evidence for linguistic relativity is reviewed from the perspectives of first language influences on cognition, including color, motion, number, time, objects, and nonlinguistic representations, and from the prism of cross-linguistic influences.
- Hye K. Pae
- 2020
- APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
- Structure-Centered Approaches
- Domain-Centered Approaches
- Shifting Burdens of Proof
- TOWARD A THEORETICAL ACCOUNT
- CONCLUSION
Among the studies meeting the above criteria, there have been three ap-proaches to research depending on which among the three key elements at is-sue (language, reality, thought) serves as the central orientation or point of de-parture for the investigation: structure-centered, domain-centered, and behavior-centered. With enough thought and labor, ...
GENERAL difference between languages in their structure of meaning. The analysis char- APROACH A structure-centered approach begins with an observed acterizes the structure of meaning and elaborates the interpretations of reality implicit in them. Then evidence for the influence of these interpretations on thought is sought in speakers behavior. Th...
GENERAL APROACH A domain-centered approach begins with a certain do-main of experienced reality and asks how various languages encode or con-strue it. Usually the analysis attempts to characterize the domain independ-ently of language(s) and then determine how each language selects from and organizes the domain. Typically, speakers of different lan...
The research reviewed here indicates that the linguistic relativity proposal can be practically and profitably investigated in a number of ways. The linguistic variables range from small sets of lexical items to broad grammatical patterns to functional aggregates of features. The cognitive variables include the func-tional organization of perceptio...
Empirical demonstrations of the types just described move the linguistic rela-tivity hypothesis from the realm of speculation to the realm of concrete investi-gation, but they are not equivalent to providing a theoretical account. Such an account must specify the conditions and mechanisms leading to relativity ef-fects, that is, give further conten...
The range of materials relevant to providing an adequate theoretical account of linguistic relativity is daunting. An account has to deal both with the underly-ing processes upon which all language and thought relations are necessarily built and with the shaping role of discourse as it is implemented in social insti-tutions and cultural traditions....
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We identify seven categories of hypotheses about the possible effects of language on thought across a wide range of domains, including motion, color, spatial relations, number, and false belief understanding.
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This chapter presents not a linguistic theory or model but a body of research falling under the cover term linguistic relativity. Most generally, linguistic relativity studies investigate possible effects of natural language on purportedly non-linguistic cognition.
John Leavitt presents an elegant and persuasive revisionist history of the variable responses of linguists to the question of linguistic relativity in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and explores the misreading of this position over the half-century since its classic anthropological for mulation.
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Oct 27, 2010 · We identify seven categories of hypotheses about the possible effects of language on thought across a wide range of domains, including motion, color, spatial relations, number, and false belief understanding.
