Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1911056
Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev
ABSTRACT Phraseological manipulation (PhM) is defined as an intentional and recognizable transformation of a phraseological item with different communicative effects. The relationship between this linguistic procedure and the notion of incongruity — the basic ingredient of a humorous product — is clear. It is also evident that the appropriate use of PhM requires good metalinguistic skills, and this becomes relevant when dealing with children. In this paper we analyse the use of PhM as a linguistic device to trigger humour in 448 narratives written by schoolchildren of three age bands: 8, 10 and 12 years old. Our results are: (1) the use of PhM is scarce at the age of 8 (around 3%), whereas it increases exponentially in 12-year-olds (around 30%); (2) the qualitative approach reveals that children at the age of 8 make a rather epipragmatic use of PhM, which deserves some interesting observations.
{"title":"Phraseological manipulation as a humour tool in 8–12-year-olds’ written narratives in Spanish (La desautomatización fraseológica como recurso humorístico en narraciones escritas por niños y niñas de 8 a 12 años en español)","authors":"Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1911056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1911056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Phraseological manipulation (PhM) is defined as an intentional and recognizable transformation of a phraseological item with different communicative effects. The relationship between this linguistic procedure and the notion of incongruity — the basic ingredient of a humorous product — is clear. It is also evident that the appropriate use of PhM requires good metalinguistic skills, and this becomes relevant when dealing with children. In this paper we analyse the use of PhM as a linguistic device to trigger humour in 448 narratives written by schoolchildren of three age bands: 8, 10 and 12 years old. Our results are: (1) the use of PhM is scarce at the age of 8 (around 3%), whereas it increases exponentially in 12-year-olds (around 30%); (2) the qualitative approach reveals that children at the age of 8 make a rather epipragmatic use of PhM, which deserves some interesting observations.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"42 1","pages":"462 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87369127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1909250
Javier E. Díaz-Vera
ABSTRACT Research on emotional expressions has focused on our expressions for utilitarian emotions. Little is known about how speakers express aesthetic emotions. Aesthetic emotions, in fact, have been traditionally considered as lacking specific patterns of metaphoric and metonymic representation, so that our linguistic and gestural expressions for art-related emotions are frequently considered arbitrary and unsystematic. Recent research shows the existence of characteristic embodiment for most aesthetic emotions. Using this embodied understanding of aesthetic emotions, I have analysed a corpus of travellers’ reviews by native speakers of Japanese and English. The study of these expressions shows that both Japanese- and English-speaking travellers frequently rely on similar conceptual patterns. However, this study also indicates the existence of cultural differences in the way these emotions are described by speakers from each linguistic area. Furthermore, the use of expressions for some of these emotions is restricted to one sub-corpus, which might be revealing a cultural disposition to experience these emotions in the context of this historic site. In sum, this research contributes to a better understanding of how aesthetic emotions may be influenced by culture.
{"title":"Conceptual variation in the linguistic expression of aesthetic emotions: Cross-cultural perspectives on an underexplored domain (Variación conceptual en la expresión lingüística de emociones estéticas: perspectivas interculturales en un campo poco estudiado)","authors":"Javier E. Díaz-Vera","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1909250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1909250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on emotional expressions has focused on our expressions for utilitarian emotions. Little is known about how speakers express aesthetic emotions. Aesthetic emotions, in fact, have been traditionally considered as lacking specific patterns of metaphoric and metonymic representation, so that our linguistic and gestural expressions for art-related emotions are frequently considered arbitrary and unsystematic. Recent research shows the existence of characteristic embodiment for most aesthetic emotions. Using this embodied understanding of aesthetic emotions, I have analysed a corpus of travellers’ reviews by native speakers of Japanese and English. The study of these expressions shows that both Japanese- and English-speaking travellers frequently rely on similar conceptual patterns. However, this study also indicates the existence of cultural differences in the way these emotions are described by speakers from each linguistic area. Furthermore, the use of expressions for some of these emotions is restricted to one sub-corpus, which might be revealing a cultural disposition to experience these emotions in the context of this historic site. In sum, this research contributes to a better understanding of how aesthetic emotions may be influenced by culture.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"399 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78476834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1910453
A. Cieślicka, R. Heredia, Ariana C. García
ABSTRACT Two experiments examined meaning (re)activation of English idiomatic expressions by Spanish-dominant, English-dominant and balanced bilinguals. Participants listened to idiomatic expressions of the type I always 3*miss the boat1 * when it comes to jokes, and that2 * makes it nearly4 * impossible to attend comedy shows, and made lexical decisions to visually presented targets that were related literally (water), figuratively (fail) or unrelated to the critical idiomatic expression. In Experiment 1, we measured meaning activation immediately at idiom offset (probe 1*) and after an anaphoric referential description (e.g., that; probe 2*). Probe 2 was intended to further examine whether an anaphoric referential description was more likely to (re)activate its antecedent figurative interpretation that could be more pragmatically plausible than its literal representation. In Experiment 2, targets were presented at idiom onset and 300 ms after anaphor offset. Results revealed that idiom meaning (re)activation was modulated by language dominance, where English-dominant and balanced bilinguals had faster and more accurate responses than Spanish-dominant bilinguals.
{"title":"The (re)activation of idiomatic expressions (La (re)activación de expresiones idiomáticas)","authors":"A. Cieślicka, R. Heredia, Ariana C. García","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1910453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1910453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Two experiments examined meaning (re)activation of English idiomatic expressions by Spanish-dominant, English-dominant and balanced bilinguals. Participants listened to idiomatic expressions of the type I always 3*miss the boat1 * when it comes to jokes, and that2 * makes it nearly4 * impossible to attend comedy shows, and made lexical decisions to visually presented targets that were related literally (water), figuratively (fail) or unrelated to the critical idiomatic expression. In Experiment 1, we measured meaning activation immediately at idiom offset (probe 1*) and after an anaphoric referential description (e.g., that; probe 2*). Probe 2 was intended to further examine whether an anaphoric referential description was more likely to (re)activate its antecedent figurative interpretation that could be more pragmatically plausible than its literal representation. In Experiment 2, targets were presented at idiom onset and 300 ms after anaphor offset. Results revealed that idiom meaning (re)activation was modulated by language dominance, where English-dominant and balanced bilinguals had faster and more accurate responses than Spanish-dominant bilinguals.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"21 1","pages":"334 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83228453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1909247
Elena Marulanda-Páez, José-Manuel Igoa-González
ABSTRACT This study explored possible impairments in the comprehension of nominal metaphors in five aphasic patients with semantic deficits and two with difficulties in lexical access. To this end, a set of four novel tasks was designed: two oral paraphrasing and two forced-choice tasks. The results support the claims of the Class-Inclusion Model and the Graded Salience Hypothesis, and showed that difficulties in the comprehension of these types of expressions are sensitive to certain features of metaphor vehicles, especially their ambiguity, level of conventionality and degree of semantic opacity. Similarly, they confirmed that metaphors understood as categorization statements require the undamaged processing of low-imageability words, as opposed to analogical metaphors, which comply with the assumptions of the Structural Mapping Model. Generally, patients with lexical impairments do not show difficulties in the processing of metaphorical expressions, while the performance of patients with semantic deficit is affected in accordance with their inability to understand abstract and low-frequency words.
{"title":"‘My daughter is no angel’: impairments in nominal metaphor comprehension by aphasic patients (‘Mi hija no es un tesoro’: alteraciones en la comprensión de metáforas nominales en personas con afasia)","authors":"Elena Marulanda-Páez, José-Manuel Igoa-González","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1909247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1909247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored possible impairments in the comprehension of nominal metaphors in five aphasic patients with semantic deficits and two with difficulties in lexical access. To this end, a set of four novel tasks was designed: two oral paraphrasing and two forced-choice tasks. The results support the claims of the Class-Inclusion Model and the Graded Salience Hypothesis, and showed that difficulties in the comprehension of these types of expressions are sensitive to certain features of metaphor vehicles, especially their ambiguity, level of conventionality and degree of semantic opacity. Similarly, they confirmed that metaphors understood as categorization statements require the undamaged processing of low-imageability words, as opposed to analogical metaphors, which comply with the assumptions of the Structural Mapping Model. Generally, patients with lexical impairments do not show difficulties in the processing of metaphorical expressions, while the performance of patients with semantic deficit is affected in accordance with their inability to understand abstract and low-frequency words.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"50 1","pages":"221 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79945726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1909248
Agustín Vicente, Isabel Martín-González
ABSTRACT There is a tendency across the Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) to understand non-literal uses of language in a literal way. Different accounts for such a literalist bias have been proposed. Three of them can be considered ‘classical’ by now: the Executive Dysfunction theory, the Theory of Mind theory and the Weak Central Coherence theory. Currently, there is another hypothesis gaining traction, namely the Structural Language hypothesis. In this paper, we critically analyse these four accounts, with a focus on the Structural Language hypothesis, which holds that issues in figurative meaning comprehension relate not to ASC core traits but to structural language problems. We argue that the notion of ‘structural language’ is vague, and also that many studies taken to support the hypothesis have not actually tested the literalist bias. We conclude by suggesting interesting areas for further research.
{"title":"The literalist bias in the autistic spectrum conditions: review of existing accounts (El sesgo literalista en las condiciones del espectro autista: revisión de las teorías existentes)","authors":"Agustín Vicente, Isabel Martín-González","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1909248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1909248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is a tendency across the Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) to understand non-literal uses of language in a literal way. Different accounts for such a literalist bias have been proposed. Three of them can be considered ‘classical’ by now: the Executive Dysfunction theory, the Theory of Mind theory and the Weak Central Coherence theory. Currently, there is another hypothesis gaining traction, namely the Structural Language hypothesis. In this paper, we critically analyse these four accounts, with a focus on the Structural Language hypothesis, which holds that issues in figurative meaning comprehension relate not to ASC core traits but to structural language problems. We argue that the notion of ‘structural language’ is vague, and also that many studies taken to support the hypothesis have not actually tested the literalist bias. We conclude by suggesting interesting areas for further research.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"3 1","pages":"298 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85097226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1914391
Elena Marulanda-Páez, José-Manuel Igoa-González
ABSTRACT This introduction presents the studies that make up volume 42, issue 2, of the journal Studies in Psychology. The first part comprises studies from the fields of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology of language. They address the processing of highly creative metaphors, comprehension of idioms in English–Spanish bilinguals, impairments in the processing of metaphors and idioms in people with aphasia and dementia, and, finally, a critical look at various accounts of the ‘literalist bias’ in the Autism Spectrum Disorder. The second part contains articles dealing with the main assumptions of the so-called conventional figurative language theory, the linguistic expression of aesthetic emotions, the use of subversive humour to vindicate the role of women in present-day society and, to conclude, an ontogenetic perspective on the emergence of humour in school-aged children.
{"title":"Figurative language: advances and new research perspectives (Lenguaje figurado: avances y nuevas perspectivas investigativas)","authors":"Elena Marulanda-Páez, José-Manuel Igoa-González","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1914391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1914391","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introduction presents the studies that make up volume 42, issue 2, of the journal Studies in Psychology. The first part comprises studies from the fields of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology of language. They address the processing of highly creative metaphors, comprehension of idioms in English–Spanish bilinguals, impairments in the processing of metaphors and idioms in people with aphasia and dementia, and, finally, a critical look at various accounts of the ‘literalist bias’ in the Autism Spectrum Disorder. The second part contains articles dealing with the main assumptions of the so-called conventional figurative language theory, the linguistic expression of aesthetic emotions, the use of subversive humour to vindicate the role of women in present-day society and, to conclude, an ontogenetic perspective on the emergence of humour in school-aged children.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"185 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77120282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1913550
Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to summarize some of my research results in the field of figurative language obtained in intensive cooperation with my colleague Elisabeth Piirainen. The idea to publish a linguistically oriented article in a psychological journal may be somewhat surprising and requires additional explanation. The starting point of our analysis of figurative language is our confidence that this part of the language system cannot be described without addressing issues outside linguistics proper, i.e., without the inclusion of extralinguistic knowledge. In this sense, figurative language is not a purely linguistic phenomenon; it includes elements of culture-based knowledge and has intersection points with all areas of knowledge interested in culture. To be able to study any properties of conventional figurative language, we need to answer at least two questions. First, what are the criteria of figurativeness, i.e., how can we select figurative expressions from the set of all units of language? Second, how to distinguish conventional figurative units from non-conventional figurative expressions. These questions are discussed in detail in our book Figurative language: cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. Let us briefly review these issues.
{"title":"On some specific features of conventional figurative language (Acerca de algunas características específicas del lenguaje figurado convencional)","authors":"Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1913550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1913550","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to summarize some of my research results in the field of figurative language obtained in intensive cooperation with my colleague Elisabeth Piirainen. The idea to publish a linguistically oriented article in a psychological journal may be somewhat surprising and requires additional explanation. The starting point of our analysis of figurative language is our confidence that this part of the language system cannot be described without addressing issues outside linguistics proper, i.e., without the inclusion of extralinguistic knowledge. In this sense, figurative language is not a purely linguistic phenomenon; it includes elements of culture-based knowledge and has intersection points with all areas of knowledge interested in culture. To be able to study any properties of conventional figurative language, we need to answer at least two questions. First, what are the criteria of figurativeness, i.e., how can we select figurative expressions from the set of all units of language? Second, how to distinguish conventional figurative units from non-conventional figurative expressions. These questions are discussed in detail in our book Figurative language: cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. Let us briefly review these issues.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"92 1","pages":"373 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77008477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1929629
Isabel Martín-Monzón, R. Rosas
{"title":"Call for Papers: Special Issue on Neurorehabilitation Research (Convocatoria de presentación de manuscritos: número especial de investigación en neurorehabilitación)","authors":"Isabel Martín-Monzón, R. Rosas","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1929629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1929629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"68 1","pages":"487 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82551614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2021.1909249
Esther Linares-Bernabéu
ABSTRACT This paper aims to show that trumping is a cognitive strategy that exploits the salience gap between the literal and figurative meaning of an expression, which is used by female comedians to attack certain targets with different humour markers such as polysemy, metonymy or metaphors. In order to verify this hypothesis, we have analysed the FEMMES-UP corpus, which gathers 15 humorous stand-up comedy acts from 15 female Spanish comedians. The corpus has been transcribed and segmented into 504 sequences. The analysis reveals that trumping is used in 67 of these sequences, that is, in 13.5% of the cases. We have been able to identify five types of trumping: homophonic, syntactic, metonymic, metaphorical and referential. Results showed that the most frequently used types are metonymic, syntactic and metaphorical, although these can also be used simultaneously, e.g., syntactic and metaphorical trumping. Findings also evidence that trumping acts as a rhetorical-pragmatic strategy for the female comedians to disassociate themselves from certain gender-based behavioural norms, to construct alternative identities and to question some heteronormative norms in a creative, humorous fashion.
{"title":"Cognitive strategies and figurative language in subversive stand-up comedy: the case of trumping (Estrategias cognitivas y lenguaje figurativo en el monólogo humorístico subversivo: el caso de la baza lúdica)","authors":"Esther Linares-Bernabéu","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2021.1909249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2021.1909249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper aims to show that trumping is a cognitive strategy that exploits the salience gap between the literal and figurative meaning of an expression, which is used by female comedians to attack certain targets with different humour markers such as polysemy, metonymy or metaphors. In order to verify this hypothesis, we have analysed the FEMMES-UP corpus, which gathers 15 humorous stand-up comedy acts from 15 female Spanish comedians. The corpus has been transcribed and segmented into 504 sequences. The analysis reveals that trumping is used in 67 of these sequences, that is, in 13.5% of the cases. We have been able to identify five types of trumping: homophonic, syntactic, metonymic, metaphorical and referential. Results showed that the most frequently used types are metonymic, syntactic and metaphorical, although these can also be used simultaneously, e.g., syntactic and metaphorical trumping. Findings also evidence that trumping acts as a rhetorical-pragmatic strategy for the female comedians to disassociate themselves from certain gender-based behavioural norms, to construct alternative identities and to question some heteronormative norms in a creative, humorous fashion.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"107 1","pages":"428 - 461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79293894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02109395.2020.1857582
Mónica M. Gerber, C. Moya, Alejandro Castillo, Macarena Orchard, Ismael Puga
ABSTRACT Why do people participate in different forms of collective action? This article analyses the impact that perceptions of injustice in the way authorities treat citizens and the legitimacy of authorities have on attitudes towards normative, e.g., voting in a plebiscite or peacefully protesting, and non-normative, e.g., violent protests or barricades, collective action. We propose a dialogue between the social psychology of social movements and theories of social justice and legitimacy to consider the joint effect of perceived injustices and legitimacy on collective action. We analysed data from a representative sample of the Chilean population (n = 1,805). Through an analysis of structural equations we found that perceived injustice is related to lower beliefs in the legitimacy of authorities, and that this leads to a greater justification for non-normative collective action and lower justification for normative collective action. Results were analysed within the current context of radicalization of social mobilizations throughout the world and in Chile.
{"title":"Acting collectively to confront injustice: the mediating role of the legitimacy of authorities (Actuar colectivamente frente a la injusticia: el rol mediador de la legitimidad de las autoridades)","authors":"Mónica M. Gerber, C. Moya, Alejandro Castillo, Macarena Orchard, Ismael Puga","doi":"10.1080/02109395.2020.1857582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02109395.2020.1857582","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why do people participate in different forms of collective action? This article analyses the impact that perceptions of injustice in the way authorities treat citizens and the legitimacy of authorities have on attitudes towards normative, e.g., voting in a plebiscite or peacefully protesting, and non-normative, e.g., violent protests or barricades, collective action. We propose a dialogue between the social psychology of social movements and theories of social justice and legitimacy to consider the joint effect of perceived injustices and legitimacy on collective action. We analysed data from a representative sample of the Chilean population (n = 1,805). Through an analysis of structural equations we found that perceived injustice is related to lower beliefs in the legitimacy of authorities, and that this leads to a greater justification for non-normative collective action and lower justification for normative collective action. Results were analysed within the current context of radicalization of social mobilizations throughout the world and in Chile.","PeriodicalId":41002,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Psychology-Psikoloji Calismalari Dergisi","volume":"40 1","pages":"76 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77794690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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