Attribution of responsibility by Spanish and English speakers: how native language affects our social judgments

• Richard Tillman ^[2] ; William Langston ^[1] ; Max Louwerse ^[2]
  1. [1] Middle Tennessee State University

     Middle Tennessee State University

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Tilburg. USA
• Localización: Revista signos: estudios de lingüística, ISSN-e 0718-0934, ISSN 0035-0451, Nº. 83, 2013, págs. 408-422
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.4067/s0718-09342013000300006
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Atribución de responsabilidad en español e inglés: cómo afecta nuestra lengua materna a nuestros juicios sociales
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  • español

    La relación entre lenguaje y pensamiento ha recibido gran atención en el campo de la lingüística. Cada vez más investigadores han demostrado de manera empírica que nuestra lengua materna puede afectar la forma en que conceptualizamos el mundo que nos rodea. El presente estudio pidió a dos grupos de participantes leer la misma historia y juzgar la atribución de la responsabilidad de un personaje de la historia que pudo haber causado un accidente. Un grupo de participantes eran hablantes nativos de español y leyeron la versión en español del texto y el otro grupo, hablantes nativos de inglés que leyeron la versión en inglés del texto. Los resultados mostraron que la lengua materna de los participantes era un indicador sutil, pero significativo de la atribución de la responsabilidad. Este hallazgo apoya la hipótesis de la relatividad lingüística que establece que la lengua materna afecta la forma en que uno conceptualiza el mundo

  • English

    The relationship between language and thought has received a great deal of attention in linguistics. An increasing amount of empirical literature now suggests that our native language can affect how we think about the world around us. The present study asked two groups of participants to read the same story and to judge the attribution of the responsibility of a character in the story who may have caused an accident. One group of participants consisted of native Spanish speakers reading a Spanish version of the text; the other group consisted of native English speakers reading an English version of the text. The results showed that the native language of the participant yielded a subtle, but significant, indicator of attribution of responsibility. This finding supports the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which states that one’s native language affects the way one conceptualizes the world

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