From “thought and language” to “thinking for speaking”

By D. Slobin. 1996

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Getting Gender Right in Neural Machine Translation (2019, background): “Speakers of different languages must attend to and encode strikingly different aspects of the world in order to use their language correctly (Sapir, 1921; Slobin, 1996).”
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (2007, background): “Rather, each one is a subjective orientation to the world of human experience, and this orientation affects the ways in which we think while we are speaking” (Slobin, 1996, p. 91).”
Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages (2007, background): “Furthermore, the availability of multiple translations relates to the issue of linguistic relativity in that ‘thinking for speaking’ (eg, Malt & Sloman, 2004 ; Slobin, 1996 ) may be different for bilinguals when labels vary across their languages (see Kan & Thompson-Schill, 2005 , for the conseq”
Space for thinking (2009, background): “According to linguist Dan Slobin (1996): Any utterance is a selective schematization of a concept – a schematization that is in some ways dependent on the grammaticized meanings of the 7 speaker’s particular language, recruited for the purposes of verbal expression.”
Event categorisation and language: A cross-linguistic study of motion (2010, background): “4 The salience hypothesis is distinct from the idea that event components that are systematically encoded in a language will enjoy higher conceptual accessibility as speakers of the language prepare their utterances (what Slobin has called ‘thinking for speaking’; see Slobin, 1996b).”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “Thus, the conceptual patterns derived from the L1 shape the way that constructions are put together, leading to nonnative categorization and “thinking for speaking” (Slobin, 1996).”
Minding the clock (2003, background): “This is an explicit variant of what Slobin (1996) dubbed thinking for speaking.”
Unifying cognition, emotion, and activity in language teacher professional development (2014, background): “2 We credit Slobin’s (1996) concept of thinking-for-speaking for shaping the”
Conceptual transfer: Crosslinguistic effects in categorization and construal* (2010, background): “…to convey about a situation or event and at what level of detail, whereas micro-planning involves structuring and linearly ordering the selected non-linguistic meanings in a way that is compatible with the structures and categories available in the speaker’s language (see Slobin, 1993, 1996).”
Ways of Crossing a Spatial Boundary in Typologically Distinct Languages (2015, background): “Languages show variation in terms of not only what aspects of the experience to encode but also the linguistic means with which to encode each of these aspects (Sapir, 1921; Slobin, 1996).”