On the linguistic shaping of thought
Another response to Alfred Bloom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7901957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna Lardiere (Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-251 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s004740450001527x |
| OpenAlex | W2118766078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Bloom (1981, 1984) linked the existence of specific grammatical constructions – for example, the counterfactual conditional in English – to the development of a labeled cognitive schema specific to counterfactual thought. He claimed that because the Chinese language lacks an equivalent grammatical marker, Chinese speakers do not develop the corresponding cognitive schema and thus process counterfactuals “less naturally” (1981:22) than English speakers. Whereas attempts to replicate Bloom (Au 1983, 1984; Liu 1985) questioned the extent to which such differences exist, this article demonstrates that where differences in counterfactual response patterns clearly do exist, they cannot be attributed to the presence/absence of a linguistic “counterfactual” construction
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Linguistics · Schema (genetic algorithms) · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |