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Influence of Social Perception and Social Monitoring on Structural Priming
1Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong.
Cognitive Science
|March 9, 2018
Summary
Students are more likely to copy a teacher's sentence structure if they view the teacher favorably. However, this imitation decreases with higher social monitoring tendencies, influencing attention and memory.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
Background:
- Structural priming, traditionally viewed as independent, is increasingly linked to sociocognitive factors.
- Social perception influences language mimicry; desirable speakers are imitated more readily.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how social perception and social monitoring affect same-verb structural priming.
- To examine student imitation of teacher sentence structures based on perception and social monitoring.
Main Methods:
- Investigated structural priming in a student-teacher context.
- Assessed individual differences in social perception and social monitoring.
- Analyzed the relationship between these factors and sentence structure imitation.
Main Results:
- Student imitation of teacher sentence structures was positively correlated with positive teacher perception.
- Social monitoring tendency negatively impacted sentence structure imitation.
- These sociocognitive factors modulate structural priming.
Conclusions:
- Sociocognitive factors, specifically social perception and social monitoring, significantly influence structural priming.
- The findings suggest attention and memory encoding are key mechanisms.
- Language use is sensitive to social context and individual social cognitive traits.
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