Are discourse comprehension and cognitive processes influenced by the type of language (English and Spanish)?: a cross-language study based on elaborative inferences generation
The aim of this study was to determine whether discourse comprehension processes, focusing on the type of inferences activated during reading, would be influenced by the language (English and Spanish) as supported by linguistic relativity theories. 20 U.S. and 20 Spanish undergraduates took part in...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/662032 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/662032 https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/rie.31.1.139071 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Estudios translingüísticos Procesos de comprensión Generación de inferencias Tareas de pensamiento en voz alta Teorías lingüísticas relativistas Educación Filología Psicología |
| Sumario: | The aim of this study was to determine whether discourse comprehension processes, focusing on the type of inferences activated during reading, would be influenced by the language (English and Spanish) as supported by linguistic relativity theories. 20 U.S. and 20 Spanish undergraduates took part in this study using a think-aloud task. The results suggest that inference generation was not restricted by language differences. In contrast, these data support the idea that inference activation reflects a universal cognitive processes pattern |
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