Aneta Pavlenko

The Bilingual Mind

And What It Tells Us about Language and Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780521888424
• ISBN-10: 0521888425
• Artikelnr.: 40444608

Autorenporträt

Aneta Pavlenko is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Temple University, Philadelphia and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Her book Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge, 2005) won the 2006 Book of the Year Award of the British Association of Applied Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the bilingual turn in the study of
language and cognition; 2. Material worlds: linguistic categorization of
the 'kaleidoscopic flux of impressions'; 3. Multidimensional worlds:
number, time, and space as linguistic systems of symbolic relationships; 4.
Dynamic worlds: linguistic construal of motion events; 5. Narrative worlds:
locating ourselves in storylines; 6. Discursive worlds: inner speech,
interpretive frames, and the accomplishment of intersubjectivity; 7.
Emotional worlds: emotion categorization, affective processing, and
ascription of significance; 8. The bilingual mind and what it tells us
about language and cognition: some renegade thoughts.

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1. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the bilingual turn in the study of language and cognition; 2. Material worlds: linguistic categorization of the 'kaleidoscopic flux of impressions'; 3. Multidimensional worlds: number, time, and space as linguistic systems of symbolic relationships; 4. Dynamic worlds: linguistic construal of motion events; 5. Narrative worlds: locating ourselves in storylines; 6. Discursive worlds: inner speech, interpretive frames, and the accomplishment of intersubjectivity; 7. Emotional worlds: emotion categorization, affective processing, and ascription of significance; 8. The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and cognition: some renegade thoughts.

Rezensionen

'A very thoughtful examination not only of bilingualism but of the nature and uses of language generally. It deals with deep issues, but does so with notable clarity.' Jerome Bruner, University Professor Emeritus, New York University