Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities

Philipp Striedl, Asifa Majid and Ross S. Purves

Landscape Research, 2024, vol. 49, issue 5, 704-721

Abstract: A long-standing debate centres around our mental representation of landscape: is it experienced in largely the same way across all humans or is it shaped to some extent by cultural and linguistic experience? Previous research supporting differences across cultures has often relied on introspection or qualitative ethnolinguistic methods. Departing from this, we collected systematic sensory, motor, and emotion ratings for different landscape terms from 289 native speakers of German, English and French. The results show that speakers within and across groups agree to a large extent in their ratings of landscape terms, particularly in their sensory and motor associations. However, there is cultural shaping too. This suggests more caution is required when extrapolating findings about landscape understandings and preferences across cultures and languages.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2334055

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