Boroditsky’s empirical studies on spatio-temporal association in Mandarin and English: A critical review
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2017-11
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Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej UW
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This paper provides a critical review of Boroditsky and her collaborators’ cross-linguistic empirical research on spatio-temporal association in mental conceptualization, to see if it is possible to render the actual relations between language and reality in a systematic manner. It also discusses a small selection of relevant studies conducted by other scholars within this domain. The analysis conducted in this paper sheds light on the shortcomings of the current cross-linguistic research on the relationship between language and thought, and similar problems related to the research on artificial intelligence (AI). Suggestions are given for future empirical study in this area.
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Liao, Y., Xiao, R. (2017). Boroditsky’s empirical studies on spatio-temporal association in Mandarin and English: A critical review. In: "East-Asian and Central-European Encounters in Discourse Analysis and Translation", Edited by: Anna Duszak, Arkadiusz Jabłoński and Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska, pp. 83-104.