Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Relativity

Eric Pederson (Ph.D. in 1991) is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. The main theme of his research is the relationship between language and conceptual process. He is a student at the University of California, Berkeley and since 1980 I have worked with cognitive linguists George Lacoff, Dan Slobin, Eve Sunfell, Leonard Tami. He joined the Max Planck Psycholinguistics Laboratory in 1991 and until 1997 he began studying more specific language relativity issues. Related publications include "Geographical and operational space in the two Tamil language systems" (1993); "Language as a context, language as a means: spatial recognition and use of conventional language" (1995); " Meaning typology ". "By Mirror: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror Discriminations" (with Eve Danziger in 1998) and "Non Mirror Discrimination" (Eve Danziger, Stephen Levinson, Sotaro Kita, Gunter Senft, David Wilkins, 1998) -text, single and then mirror image recognition with a voice of twenty-two Tamil "(2003). In addition to language relativity, his general interest includes semantic typology, domain / descriptive linguistics (South India), and expression of events. Eric Pederson can contact epederso@uoregon.edu.

The 1996 election edited by Gumperz and Levinson rethinks the publication of linguistic relativity theory and celebrates a new era of linguistic relativity, focusing on cognitive and social aspects. The book contains research on language relativism and the tradition of universalism. Levinson recorded an important language relativistic effect of the language conceptualization of inter-lingual space categories. In another study by Bowerman and Slobin, the role of the language in the cognitive process is addressed. Bowman shows that certain cognitive processes do not use languages ​​so much and are not affected by language relativity. Slobin explained another cognitive process named "Thinking to speak", a process of converting perceptual data and other types of pre-verbal perception into language communication.

Since the late 1980s, a new linguistic relativist investigated the influence of difference in language classification on cognition based on progress in cognition and sociolinguistics and found broad support of hypothesis in the experimental environment. The influence of language relativity is particularly in the field of spatial recognition and the field of social use of language, especially in the field of color perception. Recent studies have shown that color perception is particularly susceptible to language relativity when processed in the left hemisphere suggesting that this hemisphere depends on the language rather than the correct language . At the present time, most linguists support a balanced view of language relativity, the language influences some sort of cognitive process obviously, but the other processes are influenced by universal factors It is thought to receive.