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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810921203321

Titolo

Thinking and speaking in two languages / / edited by Aneta Pavlenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Tonawanda, NY, : Multilingual Matters, c2011

ISBN

1-283-14767-X

1-84769-338-5

1-84769-336-9

1-84769-493-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 267 p. ) : ill

Collana

Bilingual education & bilingualism

Classificazione

ER 930

Altri autori (Persone)

PavlenkoAneta <1963->

Disciplina

404/.2

Soggetti

Bilingualism

Second language acquisition

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Bilingualism and Thought in the 20th Century -- 2. Cognitive Restructuring in Bilingualism -- 3. Language-specific Patterns in Event Construal of Advanced Second Language Speakers -- 4. Language-specific Patterns in Event Conceptualization: Insights from Bilingualism -- 5. Thinking, Speaking and Gesturing about Motion in more than One Language -- 6. The Art and Science of Bilingual Object Naming -- 7. (Re-)naming the World: Word-to-Referent Mapping in Second Language Speakers -- 8. Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages: Overview of the Field -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers. If languages influence the way we think, what happens to those who speak more than one language? And if they do not, how can we explain the difficulties second language learners experience in mapping new words and structures onto real-world referents? The contributors to this volume put forth a novel approach to second



language learning, presenting it as a process that involves conceptual development and restructuring, and not simply the mapping of new forms onto pre-existing meanings.