LINGUIST List 16.2482: New Scientist: Chinese/Western Differences

LINGUIST List 16.2482
Thu Aug 25 2005 Media: New Scientist: Chinese/Western Differences Editor for this issue: Amy Renaud <renaudlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Karen Chung, New Scientist: Chinese/Western Differences Message 1: New Scientist: Chinese/Western Differences
Date: 23-Aug-2005 From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw> Subject: New Scientist: Chinese/Western Differences NewScientist.com news service 22:00 22 August 2005 Westerners and Easterners see the world differently by Zeeya Merali Chinese and American people see the world differently – literally. While Americans focus on the central objects of photographs, Chinese individuals pay more attention to the image as a whole, according to psychologists at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, US. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7882 Thanks to Peter Meijer of Philips, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (http://www.seeingwithsound.com/), for pointing out this article to me. Karen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Sociolinguistics Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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