Michael H. Daller
Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German
Daller, Michael H.; Furman, Reyhan; Daller, Michael; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
Authors
Reyhan Furman
Michael Daller
Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Abstract
In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germany (n = 49). The other, the returnees, moved back to Turkey after having lived in Germany for thirteen years (n = 35). The study is based on the theoretical framework for conceptual transfer outlined in Jarvis and Pavlenko (2008) and on the typology of satellite-framed and verb-framed languages developed by Talmy (1985, 1991, 2000a, b) and Slobin (1987, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). In the present study we provide evidence for the hypothesis that language structure affects the organization of information structure at the level of the Conceptualizer, and show that bilingual speakers conceptualization of motion events is influenced by the dominant linguistic environment in both languages (German for the group in Germany and Turkish for the returnees). The returnees follow the Turkish blueprints for the conceptualization of motion, in both Turkish and German event construals, whereas the German-resident bilinguals follow the German blueprints, when speaking German as well as Turkish. We argue that most of the patterns found are the result of transfer of conceptualization patterns from the dominant language of the environment. © 2010 Cambridge University Press.
Citation
Furman, R., Daller, M. H., Daller, M., & Treffers-Daller, J. (2011). Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14(1), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728910000106
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2011 |
Deposit Date | Sep 17, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 2, 2016 |
Journal | Bilingualism |
Print ISSN | 1366-7289 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-1841 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 95-119 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728910000106 |
Keywords | thinking for speaking, transfer, second language acquisition, motion event construals, Turkish-German bilinguals |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/966166 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728910000106 |
Additional Information | Additional Information : This article © Cambridge Universty Press (CUP) |
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