Conclusion: Convergence or Divergence between the East and the West?
This chapter briefly reviews language as a cultural tool and claims written language or script to be the influential force that runs cognition and culture. As an extension of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, script relativity is considered to be the
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Hye K. Pae
Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture With a Foreword by Charles A. Perfetti
Literacy Studies Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education Volume 21
Series Editor R. Malatesha Joshi
, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Editorial Board Rui Alves, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Linnea Ehri, CUNY Graduate School, New York, USA Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Catherine McBride Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Jane Oakhill, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Rebecca Treiman, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
While language defines humanity, literacy defines civilization. Understandably, illiteracy or difficulties in acquiring literacy skills have become a major concern of our technological society. A conservative estimate of the prevalence of literacy problems would put the figure at more than a billion people in the world. Because of the seriousness of the problem, research in literacy acquisition and its breakdown is pursued with enormous vigor and persistence by experts from diverse backgrounds such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and education. This, of course, has resulted in a plethora of data, and consequently it has become difficult to integrate this abundance of information into a coherent body because of the artificial barriers that exist among different professional specialties. The purpose of this series is to bring together the available research studies into a coherent body of knowledge. Publications in this series are of interest to educators, clinicians and research scientists in the above-mentioned specialties. Some of the titles suitable for the Series are: fMRI, brain imaging techniques and reading skills, orthography and literacy; and research based techniques for improving decoding, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills. Book proposals for this series may be submitted to the Publishing Editor: Natalie Rieborn; Springer; Van Godewijckstraat 30;3300 AA Dordrecht; The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7206
Hye K. Pae
Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture With a Foreword by Charles A. Perfetti
Hye K. Pae School of Education University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
ISSN 2214-000X ISSN 2214-0018 (electronic) Literacy Studies ISBN 978-3-030-55151-3 ISBN 978-3-030-55152-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55152-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons
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