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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963-

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism.

Bilingual education & bilingualism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283147675

128314767X

9781847693389

1847693385

9781847693365

1847693369

9781847694935

1847694934

OCLC:

703443946