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Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effect of Induced Emotion on Grammar Learning

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Grammar in art.

Edward Segel¹, Lera Boroditsky

¹Department of Psychology, Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA.

Frontiers in Psychology

|August 12, 2011

Summary

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Grammatical gender in an artist's native language influences the gender of personifications in art. This study found a significant correlation, with language predicting artistic representation in 78% of cases.

Keywords:

art grammatical gender language thought

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Published on: January 29, 2020

Area of Science:

Cognitive Linguistics
Art History
Psycholinguistics

Background:

The depiction of abstract concepts as personifications in art has long been debated.
The influence of linguistic structures, such as grammatical gender, on cultural and cognitive patterns is an area of ongoing research.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the grammatical gender of nouns in an artist's native language predicts the gender of personifications in visual art.
To quantify the correspondence between linguistic gender and artistic representation.

Main Methods:

Analysis of a large dataset of artworks from the ARTstor database.
Quantitative measurement of the correlation between the grammatical gender of concepts and their personified gender in artistic depictions.

Main Results:

A significant correspondence was found between grammatical gender in language and personified gender in art.
Grammatical gender successfully predicted personified gender in 78% of the analyzed cases.
This correlation was significantly stronger than would be expected by chance.

Conclusions:

Linguistic structure, specifically grammatical gender, appears to influence cultural cognition and artistic expression.
The study provides empirical evidence for the relationship between language and the representation of abstract concepts in art.
This research offers a novel perspective on the interplay between linguistics, culture, and cognition.