Language and bilingual cognition / / edited by Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (606 p.)
• Disciplina: 404.2; 404.2019
• Soggetto topico: Bilingualism - Psychological aspects; Cognition; Psycholinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BassettiBenedetta CookVivian <1940->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 cognition.The first part of the volume discusses the relationship between language and cognition as studied in various disciplines, from psychology to philosophy to anthropology to linguistics, with chapters written by some of the major thinkers in each discipline. The second part c
• Titolo autorizzato: Language and bilingual cognition
• ISBN: 1-136-86639-6; 1-136-86640-X; 1-283-04270-3; 9786613042705; 0-203-83685-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459921603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II