Reviews for Computational Psycholinguistics, An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Study Of Language

The average rating for Computational Psycholinguistics, An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Study Of Language based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-22 00:00:00 David Johnson The book has a promising idea behind it: it understands that most of the literature on Japan is based more on a static model that has low semblance to every day life and mostly reflect a State reading and promotion of the idea of Japan. That being said, the book doesn't really do much to replace this with any sort of improvement. Instead, what it does is to reify static cultural models from Japanese without realizing that those narratives also bear little resemblance to the everyday life that it tried to addressed. Of course some authors succeed more than others, but judging the book in general, the feeling after reading it is that it didn't really achieve what it was going for. Also, as usual with most Japanese Studies books, theory is lacking, which also makes it difficult to recommend a book attempting to push Japanese Studies towards something new while having no theory to back it up.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-12 00:00:00 Robert Mckay Well worth reading by any scholar or student in Japanese, linguistics, and/or gender. Due to the book's age, the ethnographic episodes are now all quite dated, as is the romanization style (which I admit had me laughing at some points and wanting to scratch my eyes out at others). Problematic language--again, a symptom of the volume's age--is also occasionally employed (i.e. "transsexual"), but these issues do not affect the overall value of the volume as a resource.