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Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Faculteit der Letteren, Departement Taal en communicatie

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Faculteit der Letteren, Departement Taal en communicatie

4 Projects, page 1 of 1
  • Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Project Code: 406.XS.24.03.144

    Imagine walking into a room and, without realizing it, sensing fear through smell. This could change how you communicate with others. While it is known that we rely on body language and facial expressions to understand others, smell might also play a role. Previous lab-based research has shown that people can detect fear in body odours. By combining psycholinguistic experiments and virtual reality interactions during exposure to fear-related smells, this project takes the next step to uncover how smells affect language processing in interactions. Investigating how smells interact with real-world communication holds promises for therapy, education, and virtual environments.

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  • Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Project Code: 406.20.TW.011

    In languages such as Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, speakers have a choice between using a polite or informal pronoun when addressing others. This choice depends on a variety of factors such as age, gender, level of education, religion, social distance, individual preferences, etc. Because address choices reflect social structures and cultural values, much research has been devoted to the sociolinguistic study of the speaker’s choice of address pronouns. The innovative potential of this project is that it takes the addressee’s perspective instead. It seeks to investigate the impact of the use of a polite or informal pronoun on the addressee. It is generally assumed that people who are being addressed by a pronoun they perceive as inappropriate in a given context may feel uncomfortable or even offended on the one hand, or pleased and flattered on the other. Hypotheses on the impact of the choice of pronoun on addressees will be put to a test in a series of psycholinguistic experiments (questionnaire, self-paced reading, eye-tracking, EEG, skin conductance). Because previous literature has pointed to cross-linguistic differences in the choice between polite and informal second person pronouns, the experiments will be conducted in four different languages that are similar in some respects but vary in others. Furthermore, the project will specifically focus on the role of the participants’ gender, since women have been claimed to be more sensitive to violations of politeness than men. The results of this project potentially have great relevance for (intercultural) business communication, education, and translation.

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  • Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Project Code: 277-70-014

    Deaf communication without a shared language investigated the ease with which deaf people are known to communicate across sign language boundaries. It studied both first-time dialogues of Dutch deaf signers with people from Belgium and China, as well as the performance and comprehension of sign language interpreters working for mixed international audiences. In addition, the degree of lexical overlap between sign languages was studied. Findings show that although there is some overlap between the lexicon of sign languages, this is not enough to explain the ease with which cross-linguistic communication takes place.

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  • Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Project Code: 277-70-013

    Language can be expressed not only in vocal modality but also by the visible body as in sign languages and gestures accompanying speech. We investigated whether using visual language matters for language development, memory and modulates visual attention. We found that using visual language facilitates spatial language development . Signers and speakers who gesture also pay visual attention to spatial relations differently than speakers who use only speech. These however dont influence memory. Finally deaf children who are exposed to sign language late have some language delays but not very much showing the flexibility of the human language learning system

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