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Marilyn Strathern

Social Anthropology > 29 > 2 > 283 - 297

Anthropology is nothing if it is not a particular way of describing the world. Yet what is most precious to it – the terms and concepts that mark it as a discipline – can also be the most tricky. When resurgent boundaries and exclusions twist truth telling and faking in any which way, anthropology might find a new urgency in thinking about the conceptual life it tries to express. How it engages has...

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Anchoring Utterances

Herbert H. Clark

Topics in Cognitive Science > 13 > 2 > 329 - 350

For people to communicate with each other, they must tie, or anchor, each of their utterances to the speaker, addressees, place, time, display, and purpose of that utterance. Doing this takes coordination. Producers must index each of these entities for their addressees, and addressees must identify each of the entities the producers are indexing. When people are face to face, they have a battery...

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Contexts and Constraints on Use

Geoff Georgi

Theoria > 87 > 1 > 136 - 151

One requirement of a theory of meaning for a natural language such as English is that it generate constraints on what speakers can use expressions to strictly and literally say or assert. Yet one significant recent philosophical defence of formal semantics, based on the technical innovations in semantics due to Kaplan, does not satisfy this requirement. On such a theory, meaning is a function from...

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Mindsets Matter for Linguistic Minority Students: Growth Mindsets Foster Greater Perceived Proficiency, Especially for Newcomers

NIGEL MANTOU LOU, KIMBERLY A. NOELS

The Modern Language Journal > 104 > 4 > 739 - 756

Growth language mindsets (i.e., beliefs that language ability can be improved) are found to sustain learners’ motivation and resilience in challenging situations. Considering that migrants who are speakers of languages other than the dominant ones often face challenging daily communications, we examined important but understudied questions of ‘how’ and ‘when’ growth language mindsets predict migrants’...

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Characterizing the Dynamics of Learning in Repeated Reference Games

Robert D. Hawkins, Michael C. Frank, Noah D. Goodman

Cognitive Science > 44 > 6 > n/a - n/a

The language we use over the course of conversation changes as we establish common ground and learn what our partner finds meaningful. Here we draw upon recent advances in natural language processing to provide a finer‐grained characterization of the dynamics of this learning process. We release an open corpus (>15,000 utterances) of extended dyadic interactions in a classic repeated reference...

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Political geography and language: A reappraisal for a diverse discipline

Ingrid A. Medby

Area > 52 > 1 > 148 - 155

After decades of going beyond the linguistic and textual concerns of early critical geopolitical scholarship, literatures in political geography are today offering rich engagements with the affective, material, embodied, and technological world. However, this paper argues that despite pressures to continually break new intellectual ground, political geography needs not and should not move wholly past...

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Cognitive and language-based disabilities of children diagnosed with cancer

Gloria Alvarez-Benito, Anali Fernandez-Corbacho, Francisco Herrero Machancoses, Maria del Carmen Fonseca-Mora

Zeszyty Naukowe Zbliżenia Cywilizacyjne > 2019 > 15 > 2 > 12-37

The survival rate of children suffering from cancer has increased, but collateral effects have been observed. A mixed-method was used to evaluate cancer children’s language and cognitive abilities. Variables such as IQ and verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed were tested. Further-more, a semiguided 30-minute-long conversation on everyday matters was used...

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L’INTERPRÉTATION : UN PROBLÈME ÉPINEUX POUR LA TRADUCTION JURIDIQUE

Margarete FLÖTER-DURR

Comparative Legilinguistics > 2018 > 36 > 7-24

Dans le contexte du tournant quantitatif amorcé dans le domaine de la traduction, tant pragmatique que juridique, le présent article vise à revenir sur le rôle des notions d'interprétation et de sens et à les replacer au centre des préoccupations de la traduction juridique. À partir du constat de la nécessité de l’interprétation, il s’agit de mettre en exergue l’ancrage social de toute traduction...

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Language Complexity and Intersubjectivity in Narratives Written by Colombian Children

Danna Aristizabal, Florencia Reali

Human Arenas > 2019 > 2 > 3 > 391-404

Language development depends on social aspects of cognition, such as intersubjectivity. Given the interdependence of patterns of language use and social cognitive aspects of communication, we question whether there is a measurable relation between lexico-grammatical complexity and the construction of intersubjectivity in children’s narratives. We analyzed narrative texts using quantitative measures...

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The Effect of Social Network Size on Hashtag Adoption on Twitter

Iris Monster, Shiri Lev‐Ari

Cognitive Science > 42 > 8 > 3149 - 3158

Propagation of novel linguistic terms is an important aspect of language use and language change. Here, we test how social network size influences people's likelihood of adopting novel labels by examining hashtag use on Twitter. Specifically, we test whether following fewer Twitter users leads to more varied and malleable hashtag use on Twitter, because each followed user is ascribed greater weight...

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Mental distress and language use: Linguistic analysis of discussion forum posts

Minna Lyons, Nazli Deniz Aksayli, Gayle Brewer

Computers in Human Behavior > 2018 > 87 > C > 207-211

Online peer support groups have become a popular arena for interacting with others who experience similar types of distress. Previous studies have identified distinctive linguistic patterns displayed by those experiencing a wide range of physical or mental health difficulties, especially in terms of increased use of first-person singular pronouns and negative words. We used the Linguistic Inquiry...

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Quantifying positive communication: Doctor’s language and patient anxiety in primary care consultations

Inge A. Stortenbeker, Juul Houwen, Peter L.B.J. Lucassen, Hugo W. Stappers, more

Patient Education and Counseling > 2018 > 101 > 9 > 1577-1584

Positive communication is advocated for physicians during consultations with patients presenting medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), but studies generally focus on what is said rather than how it is said. This study quantified language use differences of general practitioners (GPs), and assessed their relation to patient anxiety.Language use of 18 Dutch GPs during 82 consultations was compared for...

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Children's responses to questions in peer interaction: A window into the ontogenesis of interactional competence

Tanya Stivers, Jack Sidnell, Clara Bergen

Journal of Pragmatics > 2018 > 124 > C > 14-30

What is it about children's interactions that is distinctive from adults’ interactions? This article relies on a conversation analytically informed quantitative analysis of video recordings of child–child interaction to address this question. We examined 2000 questions and their responses in spontaneous conversation among three-party groups of same age children between 4–8 years of age to investigate...

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A linguistic analysis of vowel lengthening in the language of military parades

Bolanle Tajudeen Opoola

World Scientific News > 2018 > 99 > 244-248

We focus on vowel lengthening in language use by the Nigerian Armed Forces on parade ground. Existing studies on vowel lengthening show vowel lengthening not only as a phonological phenomenon whereby a single vowel is doubled subject to certain phonological conditions but also as a sociolinguistic process that expresses affirmative, directive, summon, emphasis, question, denial, disappointment and...

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Plain-Style Preferences of US Professionals

Kim Sydow Campbell, Nicole Amare, Erin Kane, Alan D. Manning, more

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication > 2017 > 60 > 4 > 401 - 411

Background: Although plain language is almost universally promoted by teachers of professional writing, editors, and communication professionals, some have argued that the effects of and preferences for plain style in written messages differ among groups of individuals. Research questions: 1. Do professionals prefer plain style? 2a. Do preferences differ for different categories of style? 2b. Do preferences...

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Detailing L1 and L2 use in study-abroad research: Data from the daily linguistic questionnaire

Lorenzo García-Amaya

System > 2017 > 71 > C > 60-72

Interest in learners’ language use in the study-abroad (SA) context has increased considerably in the past years. However, the current set of instruments is not fine-grained enough to provide detailed information to SA researchers who are interested in questions regarding the quantity and quality of language use. The present study reports on the results of a new instrument, the Daily Linguistic Questionnaire...

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Personality expression in Chinese language use

Lin Qiu, Jiahui Lu, Jonathan Ramsay, Shanshan Yang, more

International Journal of Psychology > 52 > 6 > 463 - 472

To date, little research has investigated personality expressions in languages other than English. Given that the Chinese language has the largest number of native speakers in the world, it is vitally important to examine the associations between personality and Chinese language use. In this research, we analysed Chinese microblogs and identified word categories and factorial structures associated...

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Performing registers and registering performance: Young children's linguistic practices during play in the Greek Cypriot context

Elena Ioannidou

Language and Communication > 2017 > 56 > Complete > 55-68

The current paper explores language use among a group of preschool Greek Cypriot children during their play time at home. Based on theories of performance and register-formation the paper draws on ethnographic data in order to investigate the way Standard Modern Greek and the Cypriot Greek are used in children's micro-interactions. The methodology adopted was case study research of a network of five...

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Beyond the three snares: Implications of James’ ‘psychologist’s fallacy’ for 21st century science

Jaan Valsiner

New Ideas in Psychology > 2017 > 46 > C > 26-30

William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890, pp. 194–197) warned psychologists against their own habits of assuming that other human beings are like they are. He outlined “three snares” which he considered as obstacles for psychology becoming a science: 1. The misleading influence of language, 2. The confusion of one’s own standpoint with that of mental fact, and 3. The assumption of conscious...

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A Semantic Corpus Comparison Analysis of Couple‐Focused Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use

Emily C. Soriano, Kelly E. Rentscher, Michael J. Rohrbaugh, Matthias R. Mehl

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy > 24 > 3 > 618 - 631

Incorporating spouses into interventions for problematic alcohol use is associated with increased efficacy; yet, little is known about the therapeutic processes that may explain these effects. In a study of partner language use during couple‐focused alcohol interventions, we utilized a linguistic corpus comparison tool, Wmatrix, to identify semantic themes that differentiated couples with successful...

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Terms of engagement

Anchoring Utterances

Contexts and Constraints on Use

Mindsets Matter for Linguistic Minority Students: Growth Mindsets Foster Greater Perceived Proficiency, Especially for Newcomers

Characterizing the Dynamics of Learning in Repeated Reference Games

Political geography and language: A reappraisal for a diverse discipline

Cognitive and language-based disabilities of children diagnosed with cancer

L’INTERPRÉTATION : UN PROBLÈME ÉPINEUX POUR LA TRADUCTION JURIDIQUE

Language Complexity and Intersubjectivity in Narratives Written by Colombian Children

The Effect of Social Network Size on Hashtag Adoption on Twitter

Mental distress and language use: Linguistic analysis of discussion forum posts

Quantifying positive communication: Doctor’s language and patient anxiety in primary care consultations

Children's responses to questions in peer interaction: A window into the ontogenesis of interactional competence

A linguistic analysis of vowel lengthening in the language of military parades

Plain-Style Preferences of US Professionals

Detailing L1 and L2 use in study-abroad research: Data from the daily linguistic questionnaire

Personality expression in Chinese language use

Performing registers and registering performance: Young children's linguistic practices during play in the Greek Cypriot context

Beyond the three snares: Implications of James’ ‘psychologist’s fallacy’ for 21st century science

A Semantic Corpus Comparison Analysis of Couple‐Focused Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use

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