Titre :

Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences

Auteur(s) :

Lesuisse, Mégane [Auteur]
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UFR Langues et cultures étrangères [UP8 UFR LLCER-LEA]
Transferts critiques anglophones [TransCrit]
Lemmens, Maarten [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Université de Lille

Titre de la revue :

Language and Cognition

Pagination :

1-29

Éditeur :

Cambridge

Date de publication :

2023-12-18

ISSN :

1866-9808

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Spatial language
locative events
cardinal posture verbs
eye-tracking
recognition task
conceptualisation
Linguistic relativity

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences cognitives/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Abstract While the Talmian dichotomy between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages has been amply studied for motion events, it has been less discussed for locative events, even if Talmy considers these to be included ...
Lire la suite >Abstract While the Talmian dichotomy between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages has been amply studied for motion events, it has been less discussed for locative events, even if Talmy considers these to be included in motion events. This paper discusses such locative events, starting from the significant cross-linguistic variation among Dutch, French, and English. Dutch habitually encodes location via cardinal posture verbs (CPVs; ‘SIT’, ‘LIE’, ‘STAND’) expressing the orientation of the Figure, French prefers orientation-neutral existence verbs like être ‘be’ and English – unlike for motion events – straddles the middle with a marked preference for be but the possibility to occasionally rely on CPVs. Through the analysis of recognition performances and gazing behaviours in a non-verbal recognition task, this study confirms a (subtle) cognitive impact of different linguistic preferences on the mental representation of locative events. More specifically, they confirm the continuum suggested by Lemmens (2005, Parcours linguistiques. Domaine anglais (pp. 223–244). Publications de l’Université St Etienne.) for the domain of location with French on the one extreme and Dutch on the other with English in-between, behaving like French in some contexts but like Dutch in others.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

Collaborative Continuity from Digital to Human

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL