creators_name: McNeill, David
creators_name: Duncan, Susan D.
type: preprint
datestamp: 1998-05-22
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:10
metadata_visibility: show
title: Growth Points in Thinking-for-Speaking
ispublished: unpub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: ling-compara
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: phil-lang
full_text_status: public
keywords: gesture, thinking, thinking for speaking, motion events, speech production, cross-linguistic comparison, satellite framed, verb framed, topicalization, Spanish, Chinese, Heiddeger
abstract: 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 `thinking-for-speaking'-- thinking generated, as Slobin (1987) says, because of the requirements of a linguistic code. "`Thinking for speaking' involves picking those characteristics that (a) fit some conceptualization of the event, and (b) are readily encodable in the language"[2] (p. 435). That languages differ in their thinking-for-speaking demands is a version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposition that language influences thought and that different languages influence thought in different ways.
date: 1998
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   McNeill, David and Duncan, Susan D.  (1998) Growth Points in Thinking-for-Speaking.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/664/1/McNeill%26Duncan.html