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Publication details [#53057]

Cardini, Filippo-Enrico. 2010. Evidence against Whorfian effects in motion conceptualisation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1442–1459.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | conceptualization | non-verbal behavior | verb of motion | video

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on data involving English and Italian native speakers, completing a verbal and a non-verbal task concerning video-clips showing motion events, this study offers evidence against Whorfian effects on non-linguistic cognition.