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| Title |
Grammar in Art
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00244 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Edward Segel, Lera Boroditsky |
| Abstract |
Jakobson (1959) reports: "The Russian painter Repin was baffled as to why Sin had been depicted as a woman by German artists: he did not realize that 'sin' is feminine in German (die Sünde), but masculine in Russian (rpex)." Does the grammatical gender of nouns in an artist's native language indeed predict the gender of personifications in art? In this paper we analyzed works in the ARTstor database (a digital art library containing over a million images) to measure this correspondence. This analysis provides a measure of artists' real-world behavior. Our results show a clear correspondence between grammatical gender in language and personified gender in art. Grammatical gender predicted personified gender in 78% of the cases, significantly more often than if the two factors were independent. This analysis offers a new window on an age-old question about the relationship between linguistic structure and patterns in culture and cognition. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Germany | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 104 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 96 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Researcher | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 10% |
| Other | 28 | 27% |
| Unknown | 12 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Linguistics | 26 | 25% |
| Psychology | 19 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 17% |
| Arts and Humanities | 13 | 13% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 13 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2021.
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