Cover Image

Script Effects As the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pae, Hye K.
Other Authors: Perfetti, Charles A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Literacy Studies
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Online Access:Click to View
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Converging on Written Language
  • The Script in Which You Read Makes You What You Are
  • My Indirect Answer to Yali's Question
  • Contents
  • Part I: Oral Language, Written Language, and Their Influences
  • Chapter 1: Language, Cognition, and Script Effects
  • 1.1 What is Language?
  • 1.2 What is the Relationship between Spoken and Written Languages?
  • 1.3 Do People Think Differently According to the Language They Speak?
  • 1.4 Does Language Affect Thinking or Does Thinking Affect Language?
  • 1.5 What is the Impact of Literacy?
  • 1.6 What Are Challenges in Research into Linguistic Relativity and Script Relativity?
  • 1.7 About the Book
  • 1.7.1 Scope (and Limitation) of the Book
  • 1.7.2 Terminology
  • 1.7.3 Intended Audiences
  • Chapter 2: The Emergence of Written Language: From Numeracy to Literacy
  • 2.1 Initial Written Signs
  • 2.1.1 Plain Tallies
  • 2.1.2 Complex Tokens
  • 2.1.3 Tokens in Clay Envelopes and More
  • 2.2 The Origin of the Alphabet
  • 2.2.1 Cuneiforms
  • 2.2.2 Hieroglyphs
  • 2.3 The Road to Alphabetic Writing Systems
  • 2.3.1 The Greek Alphabet
  • 2.3.2 True Alphabet
  • 2.4 Chinese Writing System
  • 2.5 From Numeracy to Literacy
  • Chapter 3: From Linguistic Relativity to Script Relativity
  • 3.1 The Evolution and Dismissal of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
  • 3.2 Rekindled Interest in the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
  • 3.3 Empirical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
  • 3.3.1 Studies of First Language Influences on Cognition among Various Language Communities
  • 3.3.1.1 Color
  • 3.3.1.2 Number
  • 3.3.1.3 Time
  • 3.3.1.4 Object
  • 3.3.1.5 Nonlinguistic Representations
  • 3.3.1.6 Other Areas
  • 3.3.2 Studies of Cross-Language Influences
  • 3.4 From Linguistic Relativity to Script Relativity
  • Part II: From the Script to the Mind and Culture.
  • Chapter 4: The Alphabet
  • 4.1 Classifications of Writing Systems
  • 4.2 What Characterizes the Alphabet?
  • 4.3 Strengths and Weaknesses as a Script
  • Chapter 5: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Writing Systems: All East-Asian but Different Scripts
  • 5.1 Chinese Script
  • 5.1.1 A Brief Historical Account
  • 5.1.1.1 The Origin of Chinese Writing
  • 5.1.1.2 Debate over the Origin
  • 5.1.1.3 A Road to Modern Characters
  • 5.1.2 Features of Chinese Script
  • 5.1.2.1 Simplified Characters
  • 5.1.2.2 Pinyin
  • 5.1.2.3 The Number of Characters and Their Complexity
  • 5.1.3 Strengths and Weaknesses as a Script
  • 5.2 Japanese Multi-Scripts
  • 5.2.1 A Brief Historical Account
  • 5.2.1.1 Kanji
  • 5.2.1.2 Kana
  • 5.2.2 Features of Japanese Script
  • 5.2.3 Strengths and Weaknesses as a Script
  • 5.3 Korean Script, Hangul
  • 5.3.1 A Brief Historical Account
  • 5.3.2 Features of Hangul
  • 5.3.2.1 Consonants and Vowels
  • 5.3.2.2 Syllables
  • 5.3.3 Strengths and Weaknesses as a Script
  • 5.4 Commonalities and Differences among the Three Scripts
  • 5.4.1 Commonalities
  • 5.4.2 Differences
  • 5.5 Asian Students' Performance in Core Subjects
  • 5.6 Implications of the Script Differences for Script Relativity
  • Chapter 6: The East and the West
  • 6.1 Differences between the East and the West
  • 6.1.1 Extrinsic Differences
  • 6.1.1.1 Architecture
  • 6.1.1.2 Clothing
  • 6.1.1.3 Everyday Practice
  • 6.1.1.4 Language and Script
  • 6.1.2 Intrinsic Differences
  • 6.1.2.1 Culture and Value Systems
  • 6.1.2.2 Attention and Perception: Holistic versus Analytic
  • 6.1.2.3 Problem Solving: Relation versus Categorization
  • 6.1.2.4 Rhetorical Structures: Linear vs. Roundabout
  • 6.2 What Makes the Differences between the East and the West?
  • 6.2.1 Philosophical Underpinnings
  • 6.2.1.1 Aristotle in the West
  • 6.2.1.2 Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in the East.
  • 6.2.2 Characteristics Typically Found in Easterners and Westerners
  • 6.3 Interpretations of the difference between the East and the West
  • 6.3.1 Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • 6.3.2 Nisbett's The Geography of Thought
  • 6.3.3 Logan's  The Alphabet Effect
  • 6.4 Toward the New Direction, Script Relativity
  • Chapter 7: The Consequences of Reading: The Reading Brain
  • 7.1 Ecosystem of Reading
  • 7.1.1 The Reader's Mind (Microsystem)
  • 7.1.2 Language and Script: Oracy and Literacy (Mesosystem)
  • 7.2 The Cognitive Impact of Reading
  • 7.3 The Reading Brain
  • Chapter 8: Linguistic Evidence for Script Relativity
  • 8.1 Theoretical Considerations
  • 8.2 Universality and Specificity According to Script Features
  • 8.2.1 Operating Principle (Alphabet vs. Logography)
  • 8.2.2 Psycholinguistic Grain Size (Phoneme vs. Syllable)
  • 8.2.3 Graph Configuration (Linearity vs. Block)
  • 8.2.4 Symbolic Representation (Arbitrariness vs. Iconic Quality)
  • 8.2.5 Graph Complexity (Traditional Characters vs. Simplified Characters or the Number of Strokes)
  • 8.2.6 Multi-Script Representations (Phonogram Kana vs. Logogram Kanji)
  • 8.2.7 Linguistic Components (Orthography, Phonology, and Morphology)
  • 8.3 Cross-Scriptal Influences
  • 8.3.1 From L1 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to L2 English
  • 8.3.2 From L1 English to L2 Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
  • 8.4 Meeting Criteria for Causality
  • 8.5 Toward the Script Relativity Hypothesis
  • Chapter 9: Neurolinguistic Evidence for Script Relativity
  • 9.1 Theoretical Considerations
  • 9.2 Major Reading Circuits among Typical Readers
  • 9.3 Neuroimaging Studies of Reading Alphabetic Hangul in Relation to L2 English Reading
  • 9.3.1 Reading in Hangul and Hanja
  • 9.3.2 Reading in L1 Hangul and L2 or L3 English
  • 9.4 Neuroimaging Studies of Reading Non-Alphabetic Chinese and Japanese Scripts.
  • 9.4.1 Word Reading in Chinese
  • 9.4.2 Word Reading in Japanese Kanji and Kana
  • 9.4.3 Word Reading in Chinese or Japanese in Relation to L2 English
  • 9.5 Toward the Script Relativity Hypothesis: Biological Unity, Scriptal Diversity, and Cognitive Diversity
  • Part III: The Digital Era and Reading
  • Chapter 10: The New Trend: The Word Plus the Image
  • 10.1 Images: How They Are Different from Words
  • 10.2 Right Brain versus Left Brain
  • 10.3 How Images Are Processed Compared to Words
  • 10.4 (Indirect) Support for Script Relativity
  • Chapter 11: The Impact of Digital Text
  • 11.1 Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
  • 11.2 Ink versus Pixels: Reading on the Two Media
  • 11.3 The Effects of Digitally-Mediated Text on Information Processing
  • 11.4 Script Relativity in the Digital Era
  • Chapter 12: Conclusion: Convergence or Divergence between the East and the West?
  • 12.1 Language as a Cultural Tool
  • 12.2 Scripts: The Hidden Drive of Cognition and Culture
  • 12.3 Conversion or Diversion of Cultures?
  • 12.4 Toward the State of Complementarity and Harmony
  • 12.5 Limitations of This Book and Recommendations
  • Epilogue
  • References.

Similar Items