The Effect of Immediate and Lifetime Experience of Reading Horizontal and Vertical Texts on Chinese Speakers’ Temporal Orientation

The present study examined participants’ performance on a temporal judgment task while holding language constant but varying their lifetime and immediate reading experience of horizontal and vertical texts. Chinese participants from Taiwan and China were randomly assigned to a reading task involving...

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Authors: Chen, Jenn-Yeu (Author) ; Friedrich, Michael (Author) ; Shu, Hua (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-12
Further subjects:B linguistic relativity temporal reasoning reading direction metaphor
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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