Are hedgehogs like pigs, or tortoises like toads? : language-specific effects of compound structure on conceptualisation
How far can language-specific structures influence conceptualisation? After a period of time where the discussion of any ‘Whorfian’ effects tended to be considered of little scientific merit, the recent decade has seen a renewed interest in this question. In particular, studies have aimed to tease apart ‘thinking for speaking’ from general cognition (cf. Slobin 1996, Stutterheim & Nüse 2002) and have shown that language-specific differences can often be observed in verbalisation as well as in the preverbal preparation phase of speech production, rather than in non-linguistic tasks.
| Author: | Heike Wiese |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150605 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 26.04.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Semantik |
| Source: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/germanistik/fachgebiete/geg-spr/pdfs/Wiese2003_Hedgehogs.pdf ; (in:) Proceedings of EuroCogSci, 2003, S. 448 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 225410249 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
