<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper models conventionalisation of language structure as constitutive of processing fluency. I postulate that the difference in conventionalisation of linguistic forms used for communication significantly influences our reasoning about linguistically-expressed problems. Two studies are reported that tested this hypothesis with the use of variably conventionalised - fluent and disfluent - formulations of problem-solving tasks. Th e findings indicate that even in tasks requiring analytic reasoning, the degree to which the linguistic forms employed to communicate are conventionalised is correlated with the subjects’ performance success rate. On a more general level, this paper seeks to empirically address the nature of links between linguistic form and meaning construction.</p></abstract>

This paper models conventionalisation of language structure as constitutive of processing fluency. I postulate that the difference in conventionalisation of linguistic forms used for communication significantly influences our reasoning about linguistically-expressed problems. Two studies are reported that tested this hypothesis with the use of variably conventionalised - fluent and disfluent - formulations of problem-solving tasks. Th e findings indicate that even in tasks requiring analytic reasoning, the degree to which the linguistic forms employed to communicate are conventionalised is correlated with the subjects’ performance success rate. On a more general level, this paper seeks to empirically address the nature of links between linguistic form and meaning construction.

Processing Fluency and Decision-Making: The Role of Language Structure

Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź, Poland

Psychology of Language and Communication

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This paper models conventionalisation of language structure as constitutive of processing fluency. I postulate that the difference in conventionalisation of...

Processing Fluency and Decision-Making: The Role of Language Structure

Published Online: Oct 29, 2015

Page range: 149 - 161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2015-0009

Keywords
cognition, communication, conventionalisation, decision-making, dual-processing, fluency, meaning construction

© by Mikołaj Deckert

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Processing Fluency and Decision-Making: The Role of Language Structure

Published Online: Oct 29, 2015

Page range: 149 - 161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2015-0009

Keywordscognition, communication, conventionalisation, decision-making, dual-processing, fluency, meaning construction

© by Mikołaj Deckert

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
cognition, communication, conventionalisation, decision-making, dual-processing, fluency, meaning construction