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Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English

Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages
  • Maya Hickmann✝ , Helen Engemann , Efstathia Soroli , Henriëtte Hendriks und Coralie Vincent

Abstract

Language-specific properties influence motion expression (Slobin 2004; Talmy 2000), but it is still debated whether they also influence non-verbal spatial cognition. We compare how English and French speakers perform three tasks involving motion events: non-verbal categorization based on cartoons during a dual task (articulatory suppression); verbal categorization involving target sentences; and descriptions of motion events. Descriptions show more manner expression in English and variation in both groups as a function of event properties. However, both groups frequently choose Path as categorization criterion, particularly in verbal categorization, but language effects do show that English speakers are more sensitive to event properties. Thus, typology has a strong impact on verbal cognition but also a partial influence on non-verbal cognition that must be taken into account in future research on the relation between language and thought.

Abstract

Language-specific properties influence motion expression (Slobin 2004; Talmy 2000), but it is still debated whether they also influence non-verbal spatial cognition. We compare how English and French speakers perform three tasks involving motion events: non-verbal categorization based on cartoons during a dual task (articulatory suppression); verbal categorization involving target sentences; and descriptions of motion events. Descriptions show more manner expression in English and variation in both groups as a function of event properties. However, both groups frequently choose Path as categorization criterion, particularly in verbal categorization, but language effects do show that English speakers are more sensitive to event properties. Thus, typology has a strong impact on verbal cognition but also a partial influence on non-verbal cognition that must be taken into account in future research on the relation between language and thought.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Editor and contributors xi
  4. Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research 1
  5. Introduction. Motion and semantic typology 13
  6. Part I. Delving into motion event typology
  7. Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions 39
  8. Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English 61
  9. Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis 95
  10. Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology 123
  11. Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions 151
  12. Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English 177
  13. Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience 205
  14. Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres 229
  15. Part II. Expanding motion event typology
  16. Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind 257
  17. Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language 279
  18. Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages 301
  19. Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between? 329
  20. Chapter 13. On the reception of translations 367
  21. Chapter 14. Applying language typology 399
  22. Afterword. Typologies and language use 419
  23. Author index 447
  24. Subject index 453
  25. Language index 459
Motion and Space across Languages
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Motion and Space across Languages
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.59.04hic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Editor and contributors xi
  4. Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research 1
  5. Introduction. Motion and semantic typology 13
  6. Part I. Delving into motion event typology
  7. Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions 39
  8. Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English 61
  9. Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis 95
  10. Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology 123
  11. Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions 151
  12. Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English 177
  13. Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience 205
  14. Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres 229
  15. Part II. Expanding motion event typology
  16. Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind 257
  17. Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language 279
  18. Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages 301
  19. Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between? 329
  20. Chapter 13. On the reception of translations 367
  21. Chapter 14. Applying language typology 399
  22. Afterword. Typologies and language use 419
  23. Author index 447
  24. Subject index 453
  25. Language index 459
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