Jurnal #2:
How the brain handles langauage:
The article talks about contents on brain regions, dominance, localization, and neurolinguistic processing. The section that especially interested me is the concept of dominance, which is the functional relationship betweent he brain’s two hemisphere. Each is dominant for certain mental functions, the two major factors of cerebral domance are language and handedness (the left hemisphere are right handed people) but the relationship is not a symmetrical, right hemisphere is fominant for language in left handed people, which is not always garanteed. I am a right-handed person, so I am specialized in analytic tasks, caterozation, logical organization, information sequencing, and language.
“How we mean” and “ How we analyze meaning” are helpful to me because it states that it is not important to understand the meaning of each specific word, but more important to comprehend as a whole. The last article “How to investigate language structure” is also interesting in the four models of language. It reminds me the time when I studied English. When I studied grammar, it is not only exist in a sentence, but also the word structure. In the future, when I study Korean, I will start with a bigger picture, such as learning the whole meaning of the conversation, and try to get the meaning in a big picture, instead of memorizing each vocabulary.
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