Language and Thought: The Neo-Whorfian Hypothesis

Gomila, Antoni

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“…The underlying mechanism for effects in these domains would be referent codability: Having a systematic set of labels for a concept not only facilitates encoding and classification (Lucy, 2016), but may be instrumental for category formation itself (Lupyan, 2008) as well as for interactions between different levels of processing (Lupyan & Clark, 2015). In such instances, language exerts its influence on cognition through linguistic and conceptual development, by changing an initially implicit representational system into a more explicit system, and by facilitating attention to dimensions of experience for which no initial preference is set (Gomila, 2015). A prime example here are the color terms (for an overview of domains, see Malt & Majid, 2013).…”

Section: The Case For Gender Congruency: Pros and Consmentioning

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Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations.

Bender¹,

Beller²,

Klauer

2018

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The question of whether language affects thought is long-standing, with grammatical gender being one of the most contended instances. Empirical evidence focuses on the gender congruency effect, according to which referents of masculine nouns are conceptualized more strongly as male and those of feminine nouns more strongly as female. While some recent studies suggest that this effect is driven by conceptual connotations rather than grammatical properties, research remains theoretically inconclusive because of the confounding of grammatical gender and conceptual connotations in gendered (masculine or feminine) nouns. Taking advantage of the fact that German also includes a neuter gender, the current study attempted to disentangle the relative contributions of grammatical properties and connotations to the emergence of the gender congruency effect. In three pairs of experiments, neuter and gendered nouns were compared in an Extrinsic Affective Simon Task based on gender associations, controlled for a possible role of gender-indicating articles. A congruency effect emerged equally strongly for neuter and gendered nouns, but disappeared when including connotations as covariate, thereby effectively excluding grammatical gender as the (only) driving force for this effect. Based on a critical discussion of these findings, we propose a possible mechanism for the emergence of the effect that also has the potential to accommodate conflicting patterns of findings from previous research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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Section: The Case For Gender Congruency: Pros and Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations.

Bender¹,

Beller²,

Klauer

2018

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Coming back to the language-thought relation, humans are able to learn crosslinguistically different lexicalization patterns referring to the same relations in the world, using them when 'thinking for speaking' (Slobin [1996] 1999: 76) in a particular language. Depending on the degree of 'recoding' (Gomila 2015), they may or may not encode real world relations in line with the given lexicalization. They encode relations rather in line with their embodied and experienced knowledge having cross-linguistically different lexicalization patterns for expressing them.…”

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“…The views are, however, varied here. While some argue in favor of the influence of language on thought like Gomila (2015) who relates its extent to the degree of 'recoding during linguistic development', others argue for rejecting this hypothesis at all (Dyke 2022).…”

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The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts

Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

2023

RiL

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The paper takes up the issue of creating meanings, focusing the dynamic relation between lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of prepositions. By providing a systematic view of the specific meanings of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish, Spanish and English counterparts, the interface between the given real spatial relation of two objects, its lexicalization and the emerging conceptualization is highlighted. Special attention is paid to the role of the particular pieces of knowledge and experience being activated in creating these meanings in order to look closely at the concept of context as this context is usually interpreted differently by different researchers. The attempt to show what happens step by step when conceptualizing a real spatial relation and its linguistic expression fixed in the lexicalization pattern is motivated by the finding that the difficulty with clear determination and separation of the context information from the information actually creating the meaning is one of the reasons why studies on the cognitive aspects of the semantics of prepositions have been abandoned over time. The paper aims to contribute to the elaboration of an authoritative method of establishing and identifying meanings of prepositions, and to contribute to the discussion about the language-thought relation providing arguments supporting the view of language as a trigger for conceptualizations provided by the embodied cognition rather than as a tool shaping thoughts.

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“…The obstacle occurs considering the mental attachment of Indonesian people to the cultural treasures that are displayed through the reality of the language. Including various social and economic impacts arising from the implementation of Social Distancing, as detailed by the WFP Team [15] Through HSW, as explained by Kadarisman [16]; Putz et al [17]; Yunhadi [18]; and Gomila [19] that mental reality represented through language (names, events, and values) is a cultural heritage in a combination of actions and beliefs, and determines the texture of Indonesian people's life. In an anthropological context, gathering at social gatherings, parties in various forms, shopping at traditional markets, and the like are a reality of language as a mental reality outside the minds of the Indonesian people, believed and inherited as a cultural treasure.…”

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Safir-Whorf Hypothesis in Covid-19 Isolation Policy

Nahadi¹,

Wijaya²,

Amrulloh³

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This article explains the reality of the constraints of applying Social Distancing policies in reducing the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia in terms of anthropological and religious contexts according to the Sapir-Whorf (HSW) Hypothesis. Referring to the experiences of several other countries implementing Social Distancing, this article offers another perspective on understanding this policy. This problem occurs in the community, so it has a relationship with linguistic behaviour. The strategic view of HSW is a reference in this article. Through identification of the agenda in the two contexts, analysis through HSW found that the constraints of applying Social Distancing indicators were related to mental reality through language, and language was relative. The relativism of the language is present as a treasure and cultural heritage, as well as the failure of reason in choosing mental relativity through language in other forms. The problem is that all agendas that are born from both contexts require the presence of many people and within close distances, thus contradicting Social Distancing indicators.

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Language and Thought: The Neo-Whorfian Hypothesis

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations.

Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations.

The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts

Safir-Whorf Hypothesis in Covid-19 Isolation Policy

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