The bilingual mind : and what it tells us about language and thought / Aneta Pavlenko.

Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963-
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404/.2
Author
Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963- author.
Title
The bilingual mind : and what it tells us about language and thought / Aneta Pavlenko.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Machine 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.
Summary
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.
Subject
Bilingualism Psychological aspects.
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.
Language and languages Study and teaching.
COGNITION.
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.
Multimedia
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Summary
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.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
Machine 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.
Subject
Bilingualism Psychological aspects.
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.
Language and languages Study and teaching.
COGNITION.
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS.
Multimedia