General Flashcards
Majid et al (2018)
Differential coding (codability) of perception in 20 diverse language, including 3 unrelated sign languages
Vision dominates, smell worst, but no single hierarchy and hunter-gatherers better at odour naming
Over-reliance on Anglo-centricity in cognitive sciences
Blasi et al (2022)
“Language, culture, and cognition, in their usual circumstances, support each other such that that different scenarios difficult to disentangle”
Majid (2018)
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Sapir (1929)
Whorf (1956)
Wolff and Holmes (2010) - Contemporary distinction of linguistic relativity proposals
Reject linguistic determinism
Thinking-for-speaking (Slobin, 1996) involves linguistic effect immediately before language production
Online use of language - “thinking with language”
Language as Meddler (Wolff & Holmes, 2010)
Linguistic codes meddle with non-linguistic codes in decision-making, but decision could be made with either codes
Verbal interference paradigm
Colour
Language as Augmenter (Wolff & Holmes, 2010)
Linguistic representations may combine with non-linguistic representations to enable people to perform tasks that couldn’t be complete with either
Claim Number as example, but studies don’t show relevance of non-linguistic representations in exact numeration, but necessity of number language > determinism
“Thinking after language” Language as spotlight (Wolff & Holmes, 2010)
Long-term exposure to and use of language highlights specific properties of the world, making certain aspects more salient than others
Spatial FoR and Topological Relations
Exams will call this linguistic relativity
Majid (2018) - preverbal infants and nonhuman primates
Preverbal infants may have evolutionary changes to brain that facilitate innate acclimation to natural language, but other species do not have this > allows causal implication of language
