Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture
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| Summary: | XXIV, 251 p. 21 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55152-0 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
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.