title: Growth Points in Thinking-for-Speaking
creator: McNeill, David
creator: Duncan, Susan D.
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Comparative Linguistics
subject: Semantics
subject: Philosophy of Language
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 `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
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/664/1/McNeill%26Duncan.html
identifier:   McNeill, David and Duncan, Susan D.  (1998) Growth Points in Thinking-for-Speaking.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/664/