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Pescuma VN, Serova D, Lukassek J, Sauermann A, Schäfer R, Adli A, Bildhauer F, Egg M, Hülk K, Ito A, Jannedy S, Kordoni V, Kuehnast M, Kutscher S, Lange R, Lehmann N, Liu M, Lütke B, Maquate K, Mooshammer C, Mortezapour V, Müller S, Norde M, Pankratz E, Patarroyo AG, Pleşca AM, Ronderos CR, Rotter S, Sauerland U, Schnelle G, Schulte B, Schüppenhauer G, Sell BM, Solt S, Terada M, Tsiapou D, Verhoeven E, Weirich M, Wiese H, Zaruba K, Zeige LE, Lüdeling A, Knoeferle P. Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Front Psychol 2023; 13:964658. [PMID: 36687875 PMCID: PMC9846624 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center "Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation" (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define "register" as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of "register", by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: (1) To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. (2) To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation-based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals' social, language, and educational background. (3) We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valentina N. Pescuma
- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Romance Studies, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Archaeology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department for Northern European Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany
- Institute for Germanic Linguistics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin-Charité, Berlin, Germany
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Dudschig C, Kaup B, Liu M, Schwab J. The Processing of Negation and Polarity: An Overview. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2021; 50:1199-1213. [PMID: 34787786 PMCID: PMC8660734 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09817-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and negation-related phenomena in psycholinguistics. In generative theoretical linguistics, negation and polarity sensitivity have been extensively studied, as the related phenomena are situated at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and are thus extremely revealing about the architecture of grammar. With the now long tradition of research on negation and polarity in psychology and psycholinguistics, and the emerging field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, a multitude of interests and experimental paradigms have emerged which call for re-evaluations and further development and integration. This special issue contains a collection of 16 research articles on the processing of negation and negation-related phenomena including polarity items, questions, conditionals, and irony, using a combination of behavioral (e.g., rating, reading, eye-tracking and sentence completion) and neuroimaging techniques (e.g., EEG). They showcase the processing of negation and polarity with or without context, in various languages and across different populations (adults, typically developing and ADHD children). The integration of multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives in this collection provides new insights, methodological advances and directions for future research.
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- Carolin Dudschig
- Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany.
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