The focusing hypothesis : the theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined / / Alison Wray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955733903321
• Autore: Wray Alison
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992
• ISBN: 1-283-42441-X; 9786613424419; 90-272-7720-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Collana: Studies in speech pathology and clinical linguistics, , 0927-1813 ; ; v. 3
• Disciplina: 153.6
• Soggetti: Neurolinguistics; Cerebral dominance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE FOCUSING HYPOTHESIS THE THEORY OF LEFT HEMISPHERE LATERALISED LANGUAGE RE-EXAMINED; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Notes on Terminology; 1. Analytic and Holistic; 2. Left and Right Hemisphere; 3. Aphasia versus Dysphasia; 4. Masculine Pronoun as the Unmarked Form; Introduction; Notes; Chapter One. The Focusing Hypothesis; 1.1 Defining Terms; 1.1.1The Dual System; 1.1.2 Focus and Information Processing; 1.1.3 Formulae; 1.1.4 Analytic and Holistic Processing; 1.2 The Dynamic Relationship of the Two Systems; 1.3 Juxtaposition; 1.4 Proposition-Focused Language (PFL) and Language-Focused Language (LFL)1.5 A Brief Justification for Holistic Language Processing; 1.6 The Operation of the Holistic Mechanisms; 1.6.1 How Formulae Work in Holistic Processing; 1.6.2 Triggers to Analysis; 1.7 Formulae in Language Processing; 1.8 The Acquisition of Formulae; 1.9 Strategies; 1.10 The Right and Left Hemispheres; Notes; Chapter Two. Theoretical Issues; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Terminology; 2.2.1 Vocalisation-Focused Language; 2.2.2 Propositional; 2.2.3 Proposition; 2.3 The Reduction of Juxtapositional Complexity; 2.3.1 Co-Ordination; 2.3.2 InternalisationNotes; Chapter Three. Support for the Structure of the Focusing Hypothesis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 DualSystems; 3.3 Optimal Processing; 3.4 Holistic Processing; 3.5 Strategies; 3.6 Clausal ; Processing: Challenge and Support; 3.7 Summary; Notes; Chapter Four. Experimental Psycholinguistic Studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Dichotic Listening Tests; 4.3 Problems with the Dichotic Listening Test; 4.3.1 Attention; 4.3.2 Misclassifications; 4.3.3 Free Recall; 4.3.4 Memory Capacity; 4.3.5 Stimuli; 4.3.6 Data Analysis; 4.3.7 Procedures; 4.4 Tachistoscopic Tests; 4.5 Verbal-Manual Interference Tasks4.6 Lateral Eye Movement; 4.7 Comments; 4.8 Prediction: Language Focus in Experiments; 4.8.1 The Nature of the Task; 4.8.2 The Nature of the Stimulus; 4.8.3 Test Environment; 4.8.4 Type of Subject; 4.8.5 Test Case: Ambiguity, Puns and Zeugma; 4.9 The Scope for Controlling Focus in Experiments; 4.9.1 Subject Type as the Primary Variable; 4.9.1.1 Sex and the Strategy Option Range; 4.9.1.2 Age and the Strategy Option Range; 4.9.1.3 Education and the Strategy Option Range; 4.9.2 Within Subject Variation; 4.10 The Value of Psycholinguistic Data in Evaluating the Focusing HypothesisNotes; Chapter Five. Clinical Investigations; 5.1Introduction; 5.2 Left Hemisphere Lesion; 5.2.1 Introduction; 5.2.2 Broca's Aphasia; 5.2.3 Wernicke9 s Aphasia; 5.2.4 Conduction Aphasia; 5.2.5 Other Types of Language Disorder; 5.3 The Rôle of the Right Hemisphere in Language; 5.3.1 Introduction; 5.3.2 The Non-Linguistic Right Hemisphere; 5.3.3 The Linguistic Right Hemisphere; 5.4 Inconsistencies in the Clinical Data; 5.4.1 Hemispherectomy; 5.4.2 Split Brain; 5.4.3 Token Test; 5.4.4 Inhibition; 5.4.5 Summary and Comment
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex. The author expounds a novel hypothesis, "The Focusing Hypothesis", which holds that language processing in the brain is achieved through analytic and holistic systems, the former through left and the latter through right hemisphere processing. This hypothesis differs from current thinking in so far as it proposes that the involvement of the two systems (and two hemispheres) depends on the strategy selected by the speaker and that the engagement by one hemisphere over another will depend upo