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From a collaborative work with Professor Asifa Majid at Oxford, our new paper compared language-driven conceptualisation of landscapes.
Ross Purves; Philipp Striedl; Inhye Kong
Conceptualising Landscapes Through Language: The Role of Native Language and Expertise in the Representation of Waterbody Related Terms
With landscape terms related to waterbodies, we took a survey for English and German speakers to rate their perception into three dimensions of cognitive psychology – namely, sensory, motor, and affective. The findings revealed that they share similar perceptions in sensorimotor associations (e.g., visual, auditory, olfactory, mouth, hand, foot), but some differences in affective responses (i.e., valence, arousal, dominance). For instance, both English and German speakers found sea/Meer and ocean/Ozean to be happy (high valence) and exciting (high arousal) places. For small and static waterbodies, English speakers revealed high valence and low arousal for spring and lake (which may indicate happy and tranquil experiences), whereas German speakers showed low valence for Tümpel and Teich.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12652
