Germanistische Linguistik

On the theoretical basis of a pragmalinguistic concept of representation and the discourse and speech act concept associated with the pragmatic concept of representation, the article analyses linguistic representations of health and illness in...

In psychiatry, mental representations are considered at a variety of complexity levels in a highly interdisciplinary context. Strict definitions, in which mental representation reflects the concrete external world are rarely used in the clinical...

The decline of behaviourism in psychology marked the triumphant advance of cognitive science as an interdisciplinary, primarily empirical investigation of mental phenomena. A core concept in this multidisciplinary research program is that of a...

To gain a better understanding of how language is mentally represented, modern linguistics provides us with a variety of empirical methods. This article focuses on two methodological approaches that are based on the observation of linguistic...

Already von Helmholtz, at the end of the 19th century, was working on the question of how the brain processes spatial sensory information and makes it available to the motor system in order to interact successfully with the world. We can see where...

This article deals with the concept of mental linguistic representation, which is used in research in many disciplines in specific ways. These uses have fundamental theoretical conditions that are linked to various challenges. Firstly, these...

Linguistic representations change over the course of a child’s life. Children are faced with the task of perceiving, processing and mentally representing the language that surrounds them. In language production, this dynamic is evident in...

Talkers vary in their production of speech, requiring listeners to work out the mapping between speech and linguistic representations for a talker. To accommodate talker variability, listeners use various sources of information, such as knowledge...