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The Linguistic Saving Hypothesis with the Perception of the Future: Comparing Mandarin Speakers and English Speakers
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Abstract
According to Jaggi’s experiment, there is no significant difference in future perception between two cultures with different future-time references. The proposed study will use the same procedure and measurement as Jaggi’s experiment to provide a different perspective that for cultures that vary a lot in future-time references, there might be a significant difference between future perceptions. We hypothesize that cultures that have a weak future-time reference will perceive that the future is closer to the present and that cultures have a strong future-time reference.
Keywords
Cognition, Future Perception, Future-time Reference
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies (ICIHCS 2022), Part 1
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-29-4
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-30-0
- Published Date
- 17 May 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/3/20220214
- Copyright
- 17 May 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited