Is 'huh?' a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items.

Autor: Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, N J Enfield

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e78273 (2013)

A word like Huh?--used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said--is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversati

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Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Autor: Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield, Michael J. Dunn, N. J. Enfield, Sérgio Meira

Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated langu

Relationship Thinking : Agency, Enchrony, and Human Sociality

Autor: N. J. Enfield

In Relationship Thinking, N. J. Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships. This is a naturalistic approach to human sociality, grounded i

Person Reference in Interaction : Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives

Autor: N. J. Enfield, Tanya Stivers

How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smith'), reduced name ('Bob'), description ('tall guy'), kin term ('my son') etc. Our choices reflect ho

Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

Autor: Mark Dingemanse, Andreas Liesenfeld, Marlou Rasenberg, Saul Albert, Felix K. Ameka, Abeba Birhane, Dimitris Bolis, Justine Cassell, Rebecca Clift, Elena Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, N. J. Enfield, Riccardo Fusaroli, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Edwin Hutchins, Ivana Konvalinka, Damian Milton, Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi, Vasudevi Reddy, Federico Rossano, David Schlangen, Johanna Seibt, Elizabeth Stokoe, Lucy Suchman, Cordula Vesper, Thalia Wheatley, Martina Wiltschko

Publikováno v: Cognitive science, 47(1):e13230, 1-8. Wiley-Blackwell
Cognitive Science
Dingemanse, M, Liesenfeld, A, Rasenberg, M, Albert, S, Ameka, F K, Birhane, A, Bolis, D, Cassell, J, Clift, R, Cuffari, E, De Jaegher, H, Novaes, C D, Enfield, N J, Fusaroli, R, Gregoromichelaki, E, Hutchins, E, Konvalinka, I, Milton, D, Rączaszek-Leonardi, J, Reddy, V, Rossano, F, Schlangen, D, Seibt, J, Stokoe, E, Suchman, L, Vesper, C, Wheatley, T & Wiltschko, M 2023, ' Beyond Single-Mindedness : A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences ', Cognitive science, vol. 47, no. 1, e13230, pp. 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230
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Dingemanse, M, Liesenfeld, A, Rasenberg, M, Albert, S, Ameka, F K, Birhane, A, Bolis, D, Cassell, J, Clift, R, Cuffari, E, De Jaegher, H, Novaes, C D, Enfield, N J, Fusaroli, R, Gregoromichelaki, E, Hutchins, E, Konvalinka, I, Milton, D, Rączaszek-Leonardi, J, Reddy, V, Rossano, F, Schlangen, D, Seibt, J, Stokoe, E, Suchman, L, Vesper, C, Wheatley, T & Wiltschko, M 2023, ' Beyond Single-Mindedness : A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences ', Cognitive Science, vol. 47, no. 1, e13230 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230
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A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. That social interaction matters is recognized by any experimentalist who seeks to exclude its influence by studying individuals in

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