Language and bilingual cognition

This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases contemporary research on the emerging area of bilingual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cook, Vivian, 1940- (-), Bassetti, Benedetta
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; Hove : Psychology Press c2011.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798317706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Contributors; Part A: Language and cognition; 1 Relating language and cognition: The speaker of one language; 2 How does language affect thought?; 3 Language and cognition: The view from anthropology; 4 Language and cognition: The view from cognitive linguistics; 5 Interactive influences of language and cognition; 6 Tools for thinking; Part B: Bilingual cognition; 7 Relating language and cognition: The second language user; 8 Bilingualism and cognition: The perspective from semantics
  • 9 Advances in the study of bilingualism: A personal view10 Bilingual worlds; 11 Color and bilingual cognition; 12 Spatial language and second language acquisition; 13 Perception of motion by Polish-English bilinguals; 14 Expressing voluntary motion in a second language: English learners of French; 15 Chinese-English bilinguals' sensitivity to the temporal phase of an action event is related to the extent of their experience with English; 16 The grammatical and conceptual gender of animals in second language users
  • 17 The interpretation of emblematic gestures in second language users of Italian18 Yo no lo tiré, se cayó solito, 'I did not throw it, it just fell down': Interpreting and recounting accidental events in Spanish and English; 19 Theory of Mind and bilingual cognition; 20 Bilingualism and the impact of emotion: The role of experience, memory, and sociolinguistic factors; 21 Emotions in bilingual life narratives; Part C: Applications and implications of bilingual cognition research; 22 Linguistic relativity and language teaching; 23 Translation and bilingual cognition
  • 24 Culture and cognition in the study of intercultural communication25 Advertising to the buy-lingual consumer; Epilogue: Bilinguals save the world; Author index; Subject index