The internal context of bilingual processing / John Truscott, Michael Sharwood Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truscott, John (College teacher), author.

Contributor:

Sharwood Smith, Michael, 1942- editor.

Series:

Bilingual processing and acquisition ; Volume 8.

Bilingual processing and acquisition ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism--Psychological aspects.

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction between dedicated linguistic systems and the other modules of the human mind. The latter provide the 'internal context' of bilingual processing. This internal context involves goals, value, emotion, self, and representations of the external context. The book combines all these elements into a coherent picture of the bilingual's internal context and the way it shapes processing. It then shows how some central concepts in cognitive science and bilingualism fit in with - and follow from - this view. These concepts include working memory, consciousness, attention, effort, codeswitching, and the possible cognitive benefits of being bilingual. The book should be of interest to professionals in the field as well as postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of figures

List of MCF abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Modular Cognition Framework

Chapter 3. Outside in

Chapter 4. Inherently internal context

Chapter 5. Bilingual representation

Chapter 6. Cognitive control and language control

Chapter 7. Control as inherently internal context

Chapter 8. Control as inherently internal context

Chapter 9. Coactivation phenomena

Chapter 10. Internal context and attention, working memory, and effort

Chapter 11. Consciousness and internal context

Chapter 12. Conclusion

References

General Index

Name Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262158

9027262152