{"id":294,"date":"2024-04-26T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T06:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/kirke\/about-the-project\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:46:44","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/kirke\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Project KirKe \u2013 \u2018Speed at the Crossroads of Language, Perception and Action\u2019 \u2013 is a starting grant funded by the Estonian Research Council. We focus on the interplay between language and cognition and are interested in the extent to which, and how, language influences what we pay attention to and how we perceive the world around us, as well as how our experiences of the world, including what we see and hear, affect language use and structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">To address these questions, we explore the language of speed in Estonian, combining corpus analysis with experimental research methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">We study<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">how speed is expressed in language,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">whether and how the language of speed influences behaviour, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-large-font-size\">whether and how the perception and experience of speed affect language use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The project is grounded in embodiment approaches. One of the central questions is how much language can reveal about cognitive processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-1024x626.jpg\" alt=\"Author: Navitrolla (originally published in Oma Keel)\" class=\"wp-image-3\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-1536x939.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-2048x1253.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/Taremaa_illustratsioon-1920x1174.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The project is funded by the Estonian Research Council (PSG929) and will conclude in 2028 (for further details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/Portal\/Projects\/Display\/d56b0bf5-097a-49b2-b5fd-30177174fca0\">ETIS<\/a>). Previous phases of the project were supported by the Estonian Research Council (PSG671) and the research fund of Kadri, Nikolai and Gerda R\u00f5uk.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Illustration by Navitrolla for the paper in Oma Keel (2022): \u2018K\u00f5igil on kiire \u2013 ka keeles!\u2019 (Everyone is in a hurry \u2013 in language too!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project KirKe \u2013 \u2018Speed at the Crossroads of Language, Perception and Action\u2019 \u2013 is a starting grant funded by the Estonian Research Council. 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