Rubio-Fernandez Paula, Berke Marlene D, Jara-Ettinger Julian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2025 Mar;29(3):269-281. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.11.005. Epub 2024 Dec 17.
How does social cognition help us communicate through language? At what levels does this interaction occur? In classical views, social cognition is independent of language, and integrating the two can be slow, effortful, and error-prone. But new research into word level processes reveals that communication is brimming with social micro-processes that happen in real time, guiding even the simplest choices like how we use adjectives, articles, and demonstratives. We interpret these findings in the context of advances in theoretical models of social cognition and propose a communicative mind-tracking framework, where social micro-processes are not a secondary process in how we use language - they are fundamental to how communication works.
社会认知如何帮助我们通过语言进行交流？这种互动发生在哪些层面？在传统观点中，社会认知独立于语言，将两者整合起来可能会缓慢、费力且容易出错。但对词汇层面过程的新研究表明，交流中充满了实时发生的社会微观过程，这些过程甚至会引导我们做出诸如如何使用形容词、冠词和指示词等最简单的选择。我们在社会认知理论模型进展的背景下解读这些发现，并提出一个交际性心理追踪框架，在这个框架中，社会微观过程并非我们使用语言的次要过程——它们是交流如何运作的基础。
