数字化和字母化:挑战语言认知

Digitalization and Letterization: A Challenge to Language-mediated Cognition

数字化是全球化时代的技术象征;字母化是全球化时代的另类符号记录。数字化淡化事物的差异性,突出和重复普遍性,进而导致认知图式化。字母词链接了一条与当今世界对话的路径,它体现的,不仅仅是命名,也是价值观念和生活方式。数字化和字母词进入汉语思维将产生认知层面一些新的值得探究的理论和应用问题。

In addition to other effects it has produced, globalization has given rise to digitalization and letterization. Digitalization tends to foreground and re-emphasize the universality of things by playing down their difference, which results in the emergence of cognitive schematization. Letterization, on the other hand, serves to strengthen a global link by facilitating cross-boundary dialogues. What it brings about is a change in values and life styles that goes well beyond matters such as naming. As such , digitalization and letterization promise to open new channels of investigation into Chinese-based cognition.