?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Growth+Points+in+Thinking-for-Speaking&rft.creator=McNeill%2C+David&rft.creator=Duncan%2C+Susan+D.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Comparative+Linguistics&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=Many+bilingual+speakers+believe+they+engage+in+different+forms+of+thinking+when+they+shift+languages.+This+experience+of+entering+different+thought+worlds+can+be+explained+with+the+hypothesis+that+languages+induce+different+forms+of+%60thinking-for-speaking'--+thinking+generated%2C+as+Slobin+(1987)+says%2C+because+of+the+requirements+of+a+linguistic+code.+%22%60Thinking+for+speaking'+involves+picking+those+characteristics+that+(a)+fit+some+conceptualization+of+the+event%2C+and+(b)+are+readily+encodable+in+the+language%22%5B2%5D+(p.+435).+That+languages+differ+in+their+thinking-for-speaking+demands+is+a+version+of+the+linguistic+relativity+hypothesis%2C+the+proposition+that+language+influences+thought+and+that+different+languages+influence+thought+in+different+ways.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F664%2F1%2FMcNeill%2526Duncan.html&rft.identifier=++McNeill%2C+David+and+Duncan%2C+Susan+D.++(1998)+Growth+Points+in+Thinking-for-Speaking.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F664%2F