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Digital joint action: Avatar-mediated social interaction in digital spaces
This article proposes a framework to characterize joint action in digital spaces. “Digital joint action” maintains many known elements from physical, real-world joint action including representations relating to joint goals and individual subgoals ...
Mariano Pugliese, Cordula Vesper
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Foreign language learning and the mismatch negativity (MMN): A longitudinal ERP study
An early component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP), the mismatch negativity (MMN), has been shown to be sensitive to native phonemic sound contrasts.
Andreas Højlund +4 more
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Utterance Honorifics (UHs) are generally regarded as a main clause phenomenon as they reflect the speaker’s attitude towards the addressee/audience. UHs in Japanese present a challenging problem to this view, however, as it has been reported that they ...
Keita Ishii, Satoshi Tomioka
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The Russian prepositional TIPA and VRODE in online student discourse: evidence of attraction?
This article scrutinizes the use of two competing Russian prepositions, tipa and vrode ‘like, such as’, in online student discourse. Both are associated with the crosslinguistically attested grammaticalization of taxonomic nouns, with tipa having derived
Kolyaseva Alena
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One of the most important social cognitive skills in humans is the ability to “put oneself in someone else’s shoes,” that is, to take another person’s perspective. In socially situated communication, perspective taking enables the listener to arrive at a
Maria Richter +7 more
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Neural correlates of linguistic collocations during continuous speech perception
Language is fundamentally predictable, both on a higher schematic level as well as low-level lexical items. Regarding predictability on a lexical level, collocations are frequent co-occurrences of words that are often characterized by high strength of ...
Armine Garibyan +13 more
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The category “native speaker” is flawed because it fails to consider the diversity between the speaker groups falling under its scope, as highlighted in previous literature.
Wintai Tsehaye +3 more
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Face Management and Negative Strengthening: The Role of Power Relations, Social Distance, and Gender
Negated gradable adjectives often convey an interpretation that is stronger than their literal meaning, which is referred to as ‘negative strengthening.’ For example, a sentence like ‘John is not kind’ may give rise to the inference that John is rather ...
Nicole Gotzner, Diana Mazzarella
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Understanding of metaphorical time pattern among medical and paramedical students. based on gender, age and academic status [PDF]
Background and Aim: Metaphor is a systematic relationship between two conceptual domains. In metaphor; an experimental or sensual domain called source domain, is related to another domain as target domain.
Raiisi F +4 more
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Harmony in Linguistic Cognition [PDF]
AbstractIn this article, I survey the integrated connectionist/symbolic (ICS) cognitive architecture in which higher cognition must be formally characterized on two levels of description. At the microlevel, parallel distributed processing (PDP) characterizes mental processing; this PDP system has special organization in virtue of which it can be ...
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