Thoughts in Motion : The Role of Long-Term L1 and Short-Term L2 Experience when Talking and Thinking of Caused Motion

Thoughts in Motion : The Role of Long-Term L1 and Short-Term L2 Experience when Talking and Thinking of Caused Motion

This thesis is about whether language affects thinking. It deals with the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language we speak influences the way we think. This hypothesis is investigated in the domain of caused motion (e.g., ‘The man rolled the tyre into the garage’), by look...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montero-Melis, Guillermo
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet 2017
Subjects:
Linguistic relativity
language and thought
conceptualization
thinking for speaking
semantic typology
lexicalization patterns
events
caused motion
bilingualism
second language acquisition
transfer
adaptation
priming
Spanish
Swedish
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Jämförande språkvetenskap och lingvistik
Specific Languages
Språkstudier
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Psykologi (exklusive tillämpad psykologi)
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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-808-8

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