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Whorf in the Wild:Naturalistic Evidence from Human Interaction
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The past few decades have seen a full resurgence of the question of whether speakers of different languages think differently, also known as the Whorfian question. A characteristic of this neo-Whorfian enterprise is that the knowledge it has generated stems from psycholinguistic laboratory methods. As a consequence, our knowledge about how Whorfian effects play out in naturally occurring behaviour (i.e. ‘in the wild’) is severely limited. This study argues that the time is ripe to redeem this evidentiary bias, and advocates a multidisciplinary approach towards the Whorfian question, in which insights from laboratory settings are combined with naturalistic data in order to yield a rounded picture of the influence of language on thought. To showcase the potential of such an approach, the study uses laboratory-generated knowledge on the influence of grammatical categories on cognition to interpret two examples of naturalistic human interaction and action in the domains of spatial navigation and scientific practice.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/143535/4/Whorf_in_the_wild._Final_II.pdf https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz050 https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/143535/
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The Whorfian time warp:representing duration through the language hourglass
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Introduction to the special issue:new and interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic relativity
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Replication Data for: Montero-Melis, Jaeger, & Bylund (2016). "Thinking is modulated by recent linguistic experience" ...
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Two languages, two minds:flexible cognitive processing driven by language of operation
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Motion event categorisation in a nativised variety of South African English
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Learning to think in a second language:effects of proficiency and length of exposure in English learners of German
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Televised Whorf:cognitive restructuring in advanced foreign language learners as a function of audio-visual media exposure
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Linguistic relativity in SLA:towards a new research programme
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Language and thought in a multilingual context:the case of isiXhosa
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Language and thought in a multilingual context: the case of isiXhosa
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Does grammatical aspect affect motion event cognition?:a cross-linguistic comparison of English and Swedish speakers
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Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect:evidence from Afrikaans
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