EAN: 9781614515852

COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON BILINGUALISM GEBUNDEN

Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics.
Cognitive linguistics had  to a large extent  taken for granted the fact that language is
embodied in our experience. However  not much attention was given to questions of whether any
changes to our language repertoire alter the way we perceive the world around us. A growing
body of recent research suggests that one cannot understand the cognitive foundations of
language without looking at bi- and multilingual speakers. In this vein  the present book aims
to contribute to the existing debate of the relationship between language  culture and
cognition by assessing differences and similarities between monolingual and bilingual language
acquisition and use. In particular  it investigates the effect of conceptual-semantic and
pragmatic properties of constructions on code choice and code switching  as well as the impact
of bilingual and bicultural education on speakers' cognitive development. This collective
volume systematises  reviews  and promotes a range of theoretical perspectives and research
techniques that currently inform work across the disciplines of bilingualism and code
switching.

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