Formanowicz, Magdalena Maria (2016). Verbs as Linguistic Markers of Agency - The Social Side of Grammar [Dataset].
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Basic grammatical categories may carry social meaning irrespective of their semantic content. In a set of four studies, we demonstrate that verbs – a basic linguistic category present and distinguishable in most languages – are related to the perception of agency, a fundamental dimension in social perception. In an archival analysis on actual language use in Polish and German, we found that targets stereotypically associated with high agency (men and young people) are presented in the immediate neighborhood of a verb more often than non-agentic social targets (women and old people). Moreover, in three experiments using a pseudo-word paradigm, verbs (but not adjectives and nouns) were consistently associated with agency (but not communion). These results provide consistent evidence that verbs, as grammatical vehicles of action, are linguistic markers of agency. In demonstrating meta-semantic effects of language, these studies corroborate the view of language as a social tool and of language as an integral part of social perception.
Item Type: |
Dataset |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Formanowicz, Magdalena Maria |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 310 Statistics 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Magdalena Maria Formanowicz |
Date Deposited: |
19 Jul 2016 10:11 |
Last Modified: |
29 Aug 2023 17:19 |
Additional Information: |
Materialien auf Polnisch |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.83554 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/83554 |
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