Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity: A Case Study of Chinese
Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity: A Case Study of Chinese
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DOI：
10.1177/002383099203500303
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发表时间：
1992-07
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Yi Xu
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作者：
Yi Xu
这本书的内容，甚至书名，让我们想起了一个古老而著名的理论：萨皮尔-沃尔夫假说：语言影响思想，决定说话者的世界观（沃尔夫，1956）。Rumjahn Hoosain提出“汉语独特的语言特性，特别是它的正字法，对认知处理有影响”。虽然他似乎无意恢复萨皮尔-沃尔夫假说的原始形式，但胡森清楚地表明了他希望通过扩展或修正来挽救这一理论。他在第一章中说：“正字法对认知的影响，特别是文字代表声音和意义的方式的影响，最初在萨皮尔和沃尔夫的著作中并没有得到承认。”因此，Hoosain似乎试图保持萨皮尔-沃尔夫假说的精神，同时更具体地将其应用于正字法的效果，特别是中文的情况。正如他所描述的那样，这种效果“更多地体现在语言使用者处理信息的能力和信息处理的方式方面”。因此，“这种语言效应在数据驱动或自下而上的过程中比在概念驱动或自上而下的过程中更重要”。这本书虽然篇幅不大（198页），但却涵盖了大量与汉语和正字法有关的心理语言学研究，特别是
The content, and indeed the title, of this book brings back to us an old and wellknown theory the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: that language influences thought and determines the world view of the speaker (Whorf, 1956). Rumjahn Hoosain proposes that “unique linguistic properties of the Chinese language, particularly its orthography, have implications for cognitive processing”. Although it does not seem to be his intention to revive the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in its original form, Hoosain clearly displays his desire t o salvage the theory through extension or revision. This is demonstrated by his remark in Chapter 1 that “the influence of orthography on cognition, particularly the influence of the manner in which the script represents sound and meaning, was not originally recognized in the work of Sapir and Whorf“. Thus, Hoosain seems to be trying to keep the spirit of theSapir-Whorf hypothesis alive while applying it more specifically to the effect of the orthography and particularly to the case of Chinese. This effect is, as he describes it, “more in terms of the facility with which language users process information, and the manner of information processing”. Therefore, “such language effects matter more in data-driven or bottom-up processes rather than in conceptually driven or top4own processes”. Though not a large volume (198 pages), the book covers an impressively large number of psycholinguistic studies related to the Chinese language’ and orthography, especially