The Whorfian hypothesis, the thesis that the language one speaks has a strong and pervasive effect on the way one thinks, has returned to prominence after a period in intellectual limbo. Since languages differ in how they partition the spatial relationships into semantic categories, the spatial domain has become a popular test-bed for whether profound effects of language on thought exist. This dissertation takes up two such linguistic differences discussed in the current literature. The first difference involves English and Korean, two languages that make crosscutting semantic partitions (Bowerman, 1996). For example, in English, “putting a block on a cardboard” and “putting a Lego on a Lego board” are described as events of “put on.” Event...
According to linguistic relativity, the structure of a language influences its speaker’s cognition. ...
International audienceIn his typology Talmy distinguishes two types of languages as a function of ho...
This study investigated if exposure to spatial language could affect spatial cognition in English-Ma...
The Whorfian hypothesis, the thesis that the language one speaks has a strong and pervasive effect o...
International audienceLanguages differ strikingly in how they encode spatial information. This varia...
This paper investigates possible influences of the lexical resources of individual languages on the ...
Languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world. This has led to speculation that languag...
This article explores the relation between language and cognition by examining the case of "absolute...
Neo-Whorfians argue that the structures our language uses to encode spatial relations influence the ...
Neo-Whorfians argue that the structures our language uses to encode spatial relations influence the ...
Languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world. This has led to speculation that languag...
This article is a revision of the previous edition article by S.C. Levinson, volume 22, pp. 14749–14...
This paper investigates possible influences of the lexical resources of individual languages on the ...
The idea that language might influence thought and also our perception is often referred to as the S...
International audienceIn his typology Talmy distinguishes two types of languages as a function of ho...
According to linguistic relativity, the structure of a language influences its speaker’s cognition. ...
International audienceIn his typology Talmy distinguishes two types of languages as a function of ho...
This study investigated if exposure to spatial language could affect spatial cognition in English-Ma...
The Whorfian hypothesis, the thesis that the language one speaks has a strong and pervasive effect o...
International audienceLanguages differ strikingly in how they encode spatial information. This varia...
This paper investigates possible influences of the lexical resources of individual languages on the ...
Languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world. This has led to speculation that languag...
This article explores the relation between language and cognition by examining the case of "absolute...
Neo-Whorfians argue that the structures our language uses to encode spatial relations influence the ...
Neo-Whorfians argue that the structures our language uses to encode spatial relations influence the ...
Languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world. This has led to speculation that languag...
This article is a revision of the previous edition article by S.C. Levinson, volume 22, pp. 14749–14...
This paper investigates possible influences of the lexical resources of individual languages on the ...
The idea that language might influence thought and also our perception is often referred to as the S...
International audienceIn his typology Talmy distinguishes two types of languages as a function of ho...
According to linguistic relativity, the structure of a language influences its speaker’s cognition. ...
International audienceIn his typology Talmy distinguishes two types of languages as a function of ho...
This study investigated if exposure to spatial language could affect spatial cognition in English-Ma...