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A usage-based cognitive linguistic (re-)interpretation of priming evidence
1Department of English and American Studies,Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich,80799 Munich,Germany.franziska.guenther@anglistik.uni-muenchen.dewww.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/guenther/index.html.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 19, 2018
Summary
Usage-based cognitive linguistic theories unify priming effects and explain contextual influences. However, they challenge the idea that priming directly reveals mental representations.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Priming Research
Background:
- Priming effects in language processing are categorized as structural or lexical.
- Previous research by Branigan & Pickering (B&P) reported distinct findings for these priming types.
- Understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying priming remains a key research question.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate Usage-based Cognitive Linguistic (UBCL) theories as a framework for interpreting diverse priming effects.
- To assess the capacity of UBCL theories to explain contextual influences on language priming.
- To critically examine B&P's assertion that priming offers direct insights into mental representations.
Main Methods:
- Theoretical analysis of existing literature on priming effects.
- Application of Usage-based Cognitive Linguistic principles to existing empirical findings.
- Comparative evaluation of UBCL theories against alternative explanations for priming phenomena.
Main Results:
- UBCL theories provide a cohesive account for both structural and lexical priming.
- These theories effectively explain how context modulates priming effects in language.
- UBCL perspectives question the direct link between priming and specific mental representations proposed by B&P.
Conclusions:
- Usage-based Cognitive Linguistic theories offer a powerful, unifying framework for understanding language priming.
- Theories highlight the role of usage and context in shaping linguistic representations.
- The direct interpretability of priming for mental representations requires further theoretical and empirical scrutiny.
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