Individual Differences and Personality
This will be my "more research to come" page, as I am currently working on this project for my graduate research. However, the essential idea is as follows: in relation to language production and language perception, it isn't just social characteristics like our social class, age, gender, race, ethnicity, region, and group affiliation that affect the way we hear and use language. Sociolinguists are beginning to find other, more inherent/intrinsic traits that predict how we interact with language. It might be due to our individual cognitive process styles. It might be a result of the way we look at and engage with the world (our worldview...our habitus). It might be due to a facet of our individual personality. Etc.
And with that, we arrive at my current quest: To locate said individual differences and analyze the way in which they affect the way we perceive and produce language. With my colleague and friend, Ashley Hesson, I have already worked on projects considering individual cognitive processing styles. For my current graduate research, I am considering the intersection of linguistic perceptions and listener personality traits.
Below is an abstract for a future presentation (NWAV 44 this coming Fall) giving a very brief introduction to my current research findings.
And with that, we arrive at my current quest: To locate said individual differences and analyze the way in which they affect the way we perceive and produce language. With my colleague and friend, Ashley Hesson, I have already worked on projects considering individual cognitive processing styles. For my current graduate research, I am considering the intersection of linguistic perceptions and listener personality traits.
Below is an abstract for a future presentation (NWAV 44 this coming Fall) giving a very brief introduction to my current research findings.