Cognitive Discourse Analysis: accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data

Tenbrink, Thora

doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.19

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“…The second stage of the analysis, firmly grounded in cognitive discourse analysis methodology (Tenbrink, 2015), requires the iterative development of rules to achieve good inter-annotator agreement. The associated need for human annotators and the time-consuming nature of the annotation process can be regarded as a limitation, especially in an era of big data and machine learning.…”

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“…One way of accessing thought-related processes is through the analysis of language, since the particular linguistic choices a speaker makes convey the specifics of his or her conceptualization (Tenbrink, 2015). A number of phenomena, such as focus of attention, (switching between) granularity levels, conceptual perspectives, and the like, have been operationalized through linguistic structures and linked to contextual factors such as modes of traveling (Tenbrink & Winter, 2009), spatial experience (Hölscher, Tenbrink & Wiener, 2011), familiarity with a specific route (Lovelace, Hegarty & Montello, 1999), space structure (Brosset, Claramunt & Saux, 2008;Kray et al, 2013), and wayfinding purpose (Hirtle, Timpf, & Tenbrink, 2011).…”

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“…Analysis of FM in alpine narratives contributes to our understanding of spatial properties that are highlighted as relevant through FM and strategies used for the description of spatial scenes. Methodologically, we rely on corpus linguistics tools to find FM in the corpus; further, we analyze the resulting subcorpus of sentences containing FM qualitatively, applying cognitive discourse analysis (Tenbrink, 2015). Demonstrating this two-step process, we add to the methodological toolkit of research dealing with spatial language and concepts.…”

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Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

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Fictive motion in language (as in "the ridge went north") is claimed to reflect the attention focus of the observer on the extension and spatial layout of an entity. This paper investigates fictive motion in alpine narratives, which describe the experience of moving in a very specifically structured space. We examine space properties that are highlighted through fictive motion in this specific context and describe how they go beyond spatial extension. We further report the communicative motivation behind the use of fictive motion, ranging from conveying the sense of place to encoding the full spatial footprint of a motion event.

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2018

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“…Regarding communicating verbal descriptions, several researchers developed approaches in finding a structure to effectively describe wayfinding instructions (Denis and Zimmer 1992;Allen 1997;Timpf 2002;Klippel 2003;Tenbrink 2014). These instructions could either be based on route knowledge, survey knowledge or a mix of both (Tversky et al 1999).…”

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Orientation information in wayfinding instructions: evidences from human verbal and visual instructions

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Although the importance of landmarks for human navigation and for orientation is well accepted, most of today's navigation systems hardly incorporate any landmark information or information supporting orientation. Different from previous research that only addressed turn-by-turn instructions in verbal forms and landmarks at decision points, the present study provides empirical evidence that human-generated wayfinding instructions are not solely turn-by-turn but the majority of instructions provide orientation information. We propose a new classification scheme for identifying information in wayfinding instructions that will not only support orientation but also facilitate construction of mental map. We explored and compared two forms of representations-visual sketch map and verbal instructions. Results revealed that landmark information is important in human wayfinding instructions with particular importance of local landmarks along the route and global landmarks that support orientation. In addition, sketch maps contained more global landmarks than verbal instructions. In contrast to turn-by-turn navigation, we found that many instructions in human route descriptions do not always refer to turning actions but to orientation. We conducted interviews with a set of raters on what they consider helpful information in both forms of representations. These results confirmed our findings and supported that future route descriptions can be more meaningful and helpful when they are enriched with orientation information as they conform to how humans structure wayfinding instructions.

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“…Discourse markers included in analysis were hesitation markers and pauses. The inclusion of these varied hesitation types was based on early research examining word predictability in the context of hesitations (see, Henderson, Goldman-Eisler, & Skarbek, 1965;Tannenbaum, Williams, & Hillier, 1965) and further inspired by the methodology of Cognitive Discourse Analysis (Tenbrink, 2015) which aims at identifying linguistic markers that reflect cognitive processes of various kinds.…”

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Choose Your Words Wisely: What Verbal Hesitation Indicates About Eyewitness Accuracy

Thomas

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Gordon

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

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SummaryResearchers have demonstrated qualitative differences in witness verbal reports made in the presence and absence of misinformation. The present study examined changes in linguistic markers present in verbal reports in the context of a repeated‐retrieval misinformation study. After witnessing an event, an immediate retrieval group engaged in a free‐recall test associated with the event. The delayed retrieval group completed a filler task. Following, all participants were presented with a post‐event narrative that included neutral, consistent, and misleading details. Both groups then took two free‐recall tests. We found that hesitations were more likely to accompany correctly remembered details if those details were altered in the narrative, than if there was consistency between the original event and narrative. We also found that retrieval prior to misinformation positively influenced the inclusion of hesitations in free‐recall reports that immediately followed the narrative.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Cognitive Discourse Analysis: accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data

Cited by 73 publications

References 87 publications

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

Orientation information in wayfinding instructions: evidences from human verbal and visual instructions

Choose Your Words Wisely: What Verbal Hesitation Indicates About Eyewitness Accuracy

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