Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited
Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited
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简介:重新审视动机的反思
DOI:
10.1075/hcp.27.02pan
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
Günter Radden
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作者:
Klaus;Günter Radden
1. Introduction e title of this introductory chapter alludes to our prior volume Studies in Linguistic Motivation (2004), in which we offered a working definition of linguistic motivation and proposed a typology of motivations, comprising ecological, genetic, experiential, perceptual, cognitive, communicative and other motivations. In the present chapter our point of departure is cognition, the “information-processing system” that we consider central to the human condition. Cognition relates to and mediates among other human systems, which we refer to as “peripheral”(see Figure 1). ey include, amongst others, bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social and communicative interaction, culture–and language. From this more general perspective, motivation in language can be regarded as a special case of influence that one human system exerts upon another human system. e Introduction is structured as follows: Section 2 presents a sketch of the overall framework of the interaction among human systems. Section 3, more specifically, elaborates the interaction between language and cognition (thought). Section 4 provides summaries of the contributions to this volume, relating them to the conceptual framework outlined in Sections 2 and 3. Section 5 concludes with some remarks on open questions and an agenda for future research.* We would like to thank Linda ornburg for reading carefully through the introductory chapter and suggesting many improvements both in content and style, which have found their way into the text. We are also grateful for the comments of an anonymous reviewer, which inspired us to rethink and reformulate our conception of motivation in language. e abovementioned scholars are of course not responsible for any remaining errors and flaws.