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This study suggests language use needs an added control mechanism beyond the perception-action link to serve communicative goals. This is crucial for understanding social interaction and intercultural communication.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) theory grounds language in the ideomotor perception-action link.
  • This link provides a foundation for embodied social interaction and language use.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an essential complementary control mechanism for P&G's theory.
  • To enhance the understanding of how language use serves communicative intentions.
  • To explore implications for intergroup and intercultural communication.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis and conceptual integration.
  • Critique and extension of existing embodied cognition models of language.

Main Results:

  • The perception-action link alone is insufficient for modulating language use.
  • An additional control mechanism is necessary to align language with communicative intentions.
  • This framework has implications for understanding social and cultural interactions.

Conclusions:

  • Language use requires a control mechanism beyond the perception-action link.
  • This mechanism ensures language effectively serves communicative goals.
  • The proposed framework enriches theories of embodied social interaction and intercultural communication.