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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811096103321

Autore

Walters Joel

Titolo

Bilingualism [[electronic resource] ] : the sociopragmatic-psycholinguistic interface / / Joel Walters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005

ISBN

1-135-61287-0

1-282-50382-0

9786612503825

1-4106-1203-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

306.44/6

Soggetti

Bilingualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-305) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Bilingual Phenomena; 2 Ten Perspectives on Bilingualism; 3 A Functional Architecture of Bilingualism; 4 Four Processing Mechanisms in Bilingual Production; 5 Accounting for Bilingual Phenomena with the SPPL Model; 6 Acquisition, Attrition, and Language Disturbances in Bilingualism; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing--the Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic (SPPL) Model--which presents language as a social phenomenon. The author accomplishes this by identifying and organizing evidence from a wide range of linguistic disciplines, merging sociopragmatics