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Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity

A Case Study of Chinese

• By Rumjahn Hoosain

• Price: $59.95
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 216
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 1st May 1991
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-0898-8

About the Book

Rather than offering variations in "world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is processed. Distinctive perceptual, memory, and neurolinguistic aspects of the Chinese language are discussed, as is the cognitive style of the Chinese people. Chinese orthography and other features of morphology and syntax are examined in relation to both bottom-up and top-down cognitive processes. While providing an extensive review of the experimental literature published in English on the Chinese language, this volume also offers a significant sample of the literature originally published in Chinese.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Aspects of the Chinese Language. Perceptual Aspects of the Chinese Language. Memory Aspects of the Chinese Language. Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Chinese Language. Conclusion.