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Discourse Grammar, the dual process model, and brain lateralization: some correlations*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2014
Abstract
Some more recent lines of research converge on claiming that human cognitive behavior in general and linguistic discourse in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to one monolithic system of cognitive activity. What this research suggests, rather, is that this behavior exhibits a dualistic organization. In the present paper, two frameworks representing this tradition are contrasted, namely Discourse Grammar and the dual process model. The former rests on observations on language structure and language use, while the latter was developed on the basis of neurolinguistic observations. The two frameworks converge on claiming that there is a significant correlation between linguistic categorization and hemisphere-based brain activity. The present paper argues that this correlation can be related to contrasting linguistic functions associated with each of the two hemispheres.
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We wish to express our gratitude to a number of colleagues who have been of help in writing this paper, providing many critical comments, most of all to Franck Floricic, but also to Walter Bisang, Laurel Brinton, Claudine Chamoreau, Ulrike Claudi, Bob Dixon, Wolfgang Dressler, Jack DuBois, Tom Givón, Martin Haspelmath, Jack Hawkins, Christa König, Haiping Long, Gábor Nagy, Heiko Narrog, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Seongha Rhee, Diana Sidtis, Kyung-An Song, Danjie Su, Arie Verhagen, as well as to the participants of the International Conference on Final Particles, held in Rouen on 27−28 May 2010, to the participants of the conference Beyond Dichotomies, held in Budapest on 25−26 October, 2010, to the participants of the conference on Competing Motivations, held in Leipzig on 23−25 November 2010, as well as to the participants of the International Conference on Grammaticalization, Rouen, 10−11 May 2012. Finally, we are also grateful to the Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology for generously having sponsored the research leading to this paper within its World Class University Program, as well as to Matthias Brenzinger and the University of Cape Town for having provided an optimal research environment for part of this research.
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