{"id":510,"date":"2018-10-22T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:16:20","slug":"28-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/28-november-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"28 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>How our language reveals how we understand the world \u2013 and who we are<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Thora Tenbrink<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYou talk like a teacher\u201d \u2013 this kind of verdict can be heard when someone formulates their opinions in a somewhat pedagogical manner; hearers assume that the speaker thinks they know better than others. In my talk, I will look more closely at what is revealed about our thinking through the way we speak, through the kinds of words we use, in a specific context.<\/p>\n<p>Language reflects thoughts and thought patterns in multiple ways, and certain patterns in language use reflect certain ways of thinking about the world. For instance, why do sailors rarely talk about \u2018moving forwards\u2019 the way you would do with a car? And why do musicians frequently use metaphors such as \u201ca wall of sound\u201d or \u201ca forceful entrance\u201d when communicating specific effects? Also, why can we often tell whether a speaker is an expert in the area they talk about?<\/p>\n<p>Everyday language is full of features that reveal a lot about who we are \u2013 if we pay close attention. Cognitive Discourse Analysis (Tenbrink, 2015) was designed to address these effects systematically. In my talk, I will outline the motivation for this approach through a range of examples like the above, and provide a short introduction to the methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How our language reveals how we understand the world \u2013 and who we are Thora Tenbrink \u201cYou talk like a teacher\u201d \u2013 this kind of verdict can be heard when [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/clcrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}