Abstract The theoretical notion of ‘construal’ captures the idea that the way in which we describe a scene reflects our conceptualization of it. Relying on the concept of ception – which conjoins conception and perception – we operationalized construal and employed a Visual World Paradigm to establish which aspects of linguistic scene description modulate visual scene perception, thereby affecting event conception. By analysing viewing behaviour after alternating ways of describing location (prepositions), agentivity (active/passive voice) and transfer (NP/PP datives), we found that the linguistic construal of a scene affects its spontaneous visual perception in two ways: either by determining the order in which the components of a scene are accessed or by modulating the distribution of attention over the components, making them more or less salient than they naturally are. We also found evidence for the existence of a cline in the construal effect with stronger expressive differences, such as the prepositional manipulation, inducing more prominent changes in visual perception than the dative manipulation. We discuss the claims language can lay to affecting visual information uptake and hence conceptualization of a static scene in the light of these results.

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语言解释：一种视觉世界的方法，探讨语言交替对事件感知和构想的影响

摘要“构造”的理论概念包含了这样一种观念，即我们描述场景的方式反映了我们对场景的概念化。依靠感知的概念（将概念和感知结合在一起），我们对诠释进行了操作，并采用了视觉世界范式来确定语言场景描述的哪些方面会调节视觉场景感知，从而影响事件的构想。通过在描述位置（介词），主体性（主动/被动语音）和转移（NP / PP名词）的交替方式之后分析观看行为，我们发现场景的语言构造以两种方式影响其自发的视觉感知：确定访问场景的组成部分的顺序，或者通过调整关注在组成部分上的分布，使它们或多或少比自然突出。我们还发现证据表明，在解释效果中存在着一个系，具有较强的表达差异，例如介词操纵，比惯性操纵在视觉知觉上引起了更显着的变化。我们讨论了声明语言可能会影响视觉信息的吸收，并因此根据这些结果对静态场景进行概念化。