The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko /
"If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had f...
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2014
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| description | "If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or 'messy' subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind" |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5095342020-12-19T17:18:52ZThe bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963- New York : Cambridge University Press,2014eng"If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or 'messy' subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind"Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-368) and indexesMachine generated contents note: 1. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the bilingual turn in the study of language and cognition -- 2. Material worlds: linguistic categorization of the 'kaleidoscopic flux of impressions' -- 3. Multidimensional worlds: number, time, and space as linguistic systems of symbolic relationships -- 4. Dynamic worlds: linguistic construal of motion events -- 5. Narrative worlds: locating ourselves in storylines -- 6. Discursive worlds: inner speech, interpretive frames, and the accomplishment of intersubjectivity -- 7. Emotional worlds: emotion categorization, affective processing, and ascription of significance -- 8. The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and cognition: some renegade thoughts."If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or 'messy' subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind"PSZJBLBilingualismSecond language acquisitionLanguage and languagesCognitionURN:ISBN:9780521888424 (hbk.) |
| spellingShingle | Bilingualism Second language acquisition Language and languages Cognition Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963- The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title | The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title_full | The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title_fullStr | The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title_full_unstemmed | The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title_short | The bilingual Mind : and what it tells us about language and thought by Aneta Pavlenko / |
| title_sort | bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought by aneta pavlenko |
| topic | Bilingualism Second language acquisition Language and languages Cognition |
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