Language and bilingual cognition
By: edited by Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY; Hove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9781848729247
Subjects: Cognition; Psychological aspects; Bilingualism; Psycholinguistics
Description: Focusing on bilinguals, this text provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part A. Language and cognition; title: 1 Relating language and cognition : the speaker of one language; title: 2 How does language affect thought?; title: 3 Language and cognition : the view from anthropology; title: 4 Language and cognition : the view from cognitive linguistics; title: 5 Interactive influences of language and cognition; title: 6 Tools for thinking; title: Part B. Bilingual cognition; title: 7 Relating language and cognition : the second language user; title: 8 Bilingualism and cognition : the perspective from semantics; title: 9 Advances in the study of bilingualism : a personal view; title: 10 Bilingual worlds; title: 11 Color and bilingual cognition; title: 12 Spatial language and second language acquisition; title: 13 Perception of motion by Polish-English bilinguals; title: 14 Expressing voluntary motion in a second language : English learners of French; title: 15 Chinese-English bilinguals' sensitivity to the temporal phase of an action event is related to the extent of their experience with English; title: 16 The grammatical and conceptual gender of animals in second language users; title: 17 The interpretation of emblematic gestures in second language users of Italian; title: 18 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; title: 19 Theory of Mind and bilingual cognition; title: 20 Bilingualism and the impact of emotion : the role of experience, memory, and sociolinguistic factors; title: 21 Emotions in bilingual life narratives; title: Part C. Applications and implications of bilingual cognition research; title: 22 Linguistic relativity and language teaching; title: 23 Translation and bilingual cognition; title: 24 Culture and cognition in the study of intercultural communication; title: 25 Advertising to the buy-lingual consumer; title: Epilogue : Bilinguals save the world.