Conférence "Do our languages have an impact on the way we think and communicate?" Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Université de Saragosse)

This talk focuses on the much debated question of whether languages influence the way speakers conceptualise and verbalise the world around them. More specifically, it examines how motion and causal events are conceptualised and multimodally encoded by L1 and L2 speakers in typologically and phylogenetically different languages. The talk will discuss results from a series of verbal and non-verbal motion and causation studies developed in our research group (Cadierno et al. 2023; Ariño-Bizarro et al. forth; Peiró-Márquez & Ibarretxe-Antuñano in press, among others). Their ultimate goal will be to reveal possible relativistic effects on these events and to show how important it is to be aware of these effects from an L2 perspective.