Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gueler Arsal, Joel Suss, Paul Ward, Vivian Ta, Ryan Ringer, David W. Eccles
Summary: The study of the sociology of scientific knowledge distinguishes between contributory and interactional experts, the former having practical expertise while the latter have internalized tacit components of expertise. The imitation game is used to assess interactional expertise, testing whether a person or group possesses expertise of another. This research reveals that interactional expertise can be acquired through immersion in a group that possesses expert knowledge.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shannon M. Ward
Summary: This paper demonstrates the benefits of narrative elicitation for ethnographic language socialization research with Amdo Tibetan children, shedding light on how children use interactional cues to build their knowledge of grammatical perspective marking. It integrates narrative elicitation with ethnographic methods to examine the usage of evidentiality, an area not frequently documented in language socialization studies. By conducting narrative elicitation tasks, the study reveals the social interaction and conventionalized usage of evidentiality in young children's language acquisition process.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Audrey Alejandro
Summary: This article addresses the lack of focus in existing literature on helping researchers increase reflexivity towards their use of language, proposing a method for 'problematising categories' to address unconscious biases in language use. This method aims to improve empirical findings and analysis within qualitative research projects.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
(2021)
Article
Linguistics
Hanh Thi Nguyen, Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen
Summary: This study contributes to understanding young children's roles and actions in discourse about language, showing how children initiate talk about language and use various interactional practices to actively engage in language discussions. The focus on language forms not only facilitates learning and teaching linguistic knowledge, but also serves as a springboard for accomplishing a variety of social actions related to affective, social, and epistemic stances, linguistic competence, norm compliance, self-assertion, and identities.
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Henri Kauhanen, Deepthi Gopal, Tobias Galla, Ricardo Bermudez-Otero
Summary: This study proposes a model-based approach to quantify the speed of linguistic change, analyzing language change as a stochastic process combining vertical descent, spatial interactions, and mutations. A notion of linguistic temperature emerges from this analysis, serving as a dimensionless measure of the propensity of a linguistic feature to undergo change.
Article
Linguistics
Joe Spencer-Bennett
Summary: This article discusses the arguments about the sociopolitical significance of the informalisation of English, and how ordinary users of British English in the 1980s were also concerned about this issue. It suggests that the relationship between language users and their linguistic experience should be rethought, and advocates for the use of social-historical archives for a better understanding of the social significance of language.
LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ulrich Ansorge, Diane Baier, Soonja Choi
Summary: We argue for linguistic relativity and present an explanation through language-induced automatized stimulus-driven attention (LASA). Our mother tongue automatically influences our attention and perception, determining what we see. This attention form is difficult to suppress and shows in language-independent tasks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tyler Knowlton, Tim Hunter, Darko Odic, Alexis Wellwood, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski, Jeffrey Lidz
Summary: Through comparing the meanings of "most" and "more," this study demonstrates how subtle differences between them influence participants' behaviors. The results of the experiments show that these differences affect how people organize and process visual information.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Linguistics
Jo Angouri, Kristina Humonen
Summary: This paper explores the negotiation of inclusion and exclusion in a multilingual professional setting, focusing on the relationship between language and space. Using a topographies of practice framework, the authors analyze interactional data and ethnographic observations from a multilingual kitchen in Finland, and highlight the role of language choice and use in enacting professional asymmetries. The study emphasizes the importance of visible and invisible boundaries in shaping inclusive or exclusive practices in the workplace.
MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Amelia Tseng
Summary: This case study examines the language socialization of Latinx children in Washington, DC and finds that the use of African American English (AAE) features acquired through peer socialization is an enduring part of their linguistic repertoire.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE IDENTITY AND EDUCATION
(2023)
Review
Education & Educational Research
YouJin Kim, Marije Michel
Summary: Linguistic alignment refers to the development of aligned linguistic representations through automatic priming mechanisms that apply to different levels of representation (e.g., auditory, semantic, syntactic) (Branigan et al., 2014). This article reviews 54 studies on second language (L2) linguistic alignment published between 2001 and 2021, focusing on methodological aspects such as alignment types, target linguistic features, alignment settings, primes modality, treatment duration, task types, and learning measures. The findings suggest that syntactic alignment in L2 English is the most extensively studied, with computer-human interaction and face-to-face oral interactions being the most frequent alignment settings. The article discusses the methodological implications and identifies future research directions in terms of expanding alignment foci and communication modalities.
Article
Business
Eero Vaara, Laura Fritsch
Summary: This article reviews recent research on the role of language and communication in strategic decision-making and strategy work. It argues that language should not be seen merely as a window into strategic phenomena, but as a central means through which strategies are shaped and understood. The paper emphasizes the importance of language use in strategy work and strategic change, as well as the need to understand new communication technologies in contemporary organizations. Additionally, the new theoretical ideas and methods discussed may inspire practitioners to develop their communication practices.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
J. P. Grodniewicz
Summary: Most linguistic exchanges are divided into turns, with fast conversational turn-taking. Understanding language involves grasping the contents of utterances and mental states, but research also focuses on the dynamic and temporal aspects of understanding.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Micha Heilbron, Kristijan Armeni, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Peter Hagoort, Floris P. de Lange
Summary: Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a hierarchy of representations. The brain uses prediction to guide the interpretation of incoming input, and predictions are ubiquitous in language processing. Predictions at different levels interact with each other.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
Carsten Roever, Naoki Ikeda
Summary: The relationship between L2 linguistic skills and the ability to use language for social purposes is not fully explored. Previous research has suggested that higher proficiency is associated with better pragmatic and interactional performance, but incongruities exist with some low-proficiency learners being effective communicators and some high-proficiency learners showing weaknesses in interactional performance. In this study, a correlation is found between speaking proficiency and interactional ability, but a qualitative analysis shows that some interactionally relevant features are impacted by speaking proficiency while others are not.
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)