On projecting grammatical persons into social neurocognition: A view from linguistics

Nicholas Evans*

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    Abstract

    Though it draws on the grammatical metaphor of person (first, third, second) in terms of representations, Schilbach et al.'s target article does not consider an orthogonal line of evidence for the centrality of interaction to social cognition: the many grammatical phenomena, some widespread cross-linguistically and some only being discovered, which are geared to supporting real-time interaction. My commentary reviews these, and the contribution linguistic evidence can make to a fuller account of social cognition.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)419-420
    Number of pages2
    JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
    Volume36
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2013

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