Nonlinguistic influences on lexical selection
Evidence from double entendres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12011979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael T Motley (University of California, Davis, corresponding author), Carl T Camden (Cleveland State University) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 124-135 |
| Publication date | 1985-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Monographs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03637758509376100 |
| OpenAlex | W2088524064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
Contemporary models of lexical selection tend to be based upon spreading activation. Lexical units are supposedly organized such that semantic (and perhaps phonological and syntactic) associates are interconnected. During the encoding of a message lexical units are activated, and the activation reverberates with associate units. Those units which accumulate the greatest levels of activation have the greatest probability of being selected for the speech plan. The present study challenges two assumptions common to these models. One of these is the assumption that lexical activation may operate within only one semantic network at a time; the other is that lexical activation is instigated only by the linguistic parameters of the encoded message. The present experiments demonstrate that during the coding of neutral messages, sexually‐aroused respondents encode more sexual double entendres—i.e., words semantically appropriate to both the message and the arousal state—than do non‐aroused control respondents, and that the effect is more pronounced for high sex‐anxiety respondents than for others. These results are taken as evidence against the challenged assumptions, since lexical selection appears to have been operating simultaneously on two semantic networks, one of which is linguistically independent of the message
Biology · Cognitive psychology · ENCODE · Lexical choice · Lexical item · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Selection (genetic algorithm · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2000 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |