Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture

Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture

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This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the "Script Relativit...

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Main Author: Pae, Hye K. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, 21
Subjects:
Literacy.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Psycholinguistics.
Language Education.
Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Charles A. Perfetti
  • Prologue
  • PART I. ORAL LANGUAGE, WRITTEN LANGUAGE, AND THEIR INFLUENCES
  • Language, Cognition, and Script Effects
  • The Emergence of Written Language: From Numeracy to Literacy
  • From Linguistic Relativity to Script Relativity
  • PART II. FROM THE SCRIPT TO THE MIND AND CULTURE
  • The Alphabet
  • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Writing Systems: All East-Asian but Different Scripts
  • The East and the West
  • The Consequences of Reading: The Reading Brain
  • Linguistic Evidence for Script Relativity
  • Neurolinguistic Evidence for Script Relativity
  • PART III. THE DIGITAL ERA AND READING
  • The New Trend: The Word Plus the Image
  • The Impact of Digital Text
  • Conclusion: Convergence or Divergence between the East and the West?
  • Epilogue.

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