Original scientific paper

ANALYSING ELICITED RESPONSES TO "WHEN" QUESTIONS TO RESEARCH PERCEPTION OF FUTURE TIME

John Fox ; Faeultv of Hotel Management Opatija, Opatija Croatia

Abstract

Trends in psycholinguistics have refleeted an awareness that the finer aspeets of cognitive processing may he sensitive to contextual factors. Investigating how contextnalisation conventions work provides insight into such processes. Analysing elicited responses to when "kada?" questions for an event set at varying temporal distances in the future, this paper investigates how Croatians perceive future time. Responses are analysed \vithin the contextualisation convention ftner-grained vs coarser-grained information. Results confirm the importance of the deictic expression (coarser grained information) for these processes. This suggests understanding the deictic expression as a frame which, hy definition, woidd represent our optimum perception of future time. An exception to the use of the deictic expression -10 days, is explained as a cultural stimulus identification. This research is especially relevant to human-computer interface design and understanding and explaining knowledge acquisition.

Keywords

cognitive processes; contextualisation. deixis; knowledge acquisition

Hrčak ID:

174195

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174195

Publication date:

1.3.1999.

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