Multilingual Cognition and Language Use

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Processing and typological perspectives

Luna Filipovic Martin Pütz(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 10. Juni 2014

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Multilingual Cognition and Language Use
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Editors and contributors
Foreword: Multilingual cognition and language use
Introduction: Understanding multilingualism
1. Preliminary remarks
2. Defining multilingualism and its core themes
3. Multilingualism in the mind
4. Multilingualism research and its place in the universality/relativity debate
5. The present volume
6. Future explorations
References
Part I. Multilingual contrasts: Interfaces and integrations
Methodological approaches in the study of linguistic relativity
1. Introduction
2. Identifying and characterizing a relevant language contrast
3. Articulating and assessing related patterns in cognitive activity
3.1 Articulating a cognitive prediction based on language patterns
3.2 Assessing for the presence of predicted cognitive patterns
3.3 Addressing concerns about language interference
4. Establishing the shaping role of language
4.1 Internal assessment design
4.2 Comparative studies with additional languages
4.3 Developmental studies with children
4.4 Studies with second language learners
5. Conclusion
References
Frequency of use and basic vocabulary
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods
3. Comparison: Swadesh-200, Swadesh-100 and the Leipzig-Jakarta list
4. Deviations from the general correlations
5. Discussion
5.1 Why might we expect deviation in the data?
5.2 General remarks regarding the overall correlation and its implications
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
A contrastive study of colour terms in French and German causal constructions
1. Introduction
2. Previous research on colour terms
3. Theoretical and methodological framework
3.1 Causal constructions
3.2 Conceptual metonymy and metaphor
3.3 Typological differences
4. Contrastive study of causal constructions in French and German
4.1 Differences in frequency
4.2 Differences in connotation
5. Conclusions
References
Corpora
Compound verbs in English and Bulgarian and the relativity debate
1. Introduction
2. Revisiting the culture-cognition-language interface
2.1 The inheritance
2.2 How words and word-formation relate to language and cognition
2.3 The place and role of compound verbs
3. The nature and status of compound verbs in English and Bulgarian
4. The ergative cryptotype
5. Conclusions
References
HERE, NEAR, FAR Spatial conceptualisation and cognition in a cross-linguistic perspective
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage
3. 'Here', 'near', and 'far' concepts in Russian and English
3.1 'Here'-concepts in Russian and English
3.2 'Near'-concepts in Russian and English
3.3 'Far' in Russian and English
4. Conclusions
References
Cognitive maps of landmark orientation
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical issues
2.1 Cognitive maps
2.2 Cognitive maps of landmarks for orientation and navigation
3. Anthropological background: Dene Chipewyan
3.1 Physical environment of the Dene Chipewyan people
3.2 Anthropological background: Eipomek
4. Natural limitations by landmarks in Eipo and Dene
4.1 Cognitive maps of landmark orientation in Eipomek
4.2 Cognitive maps of landmark orientation in Dene Chipewyan
5. Conclusion
References
Is space-time metaphorical mapping universal? Time for a cultural turn
1. Time and space in world, mind, and language
2. Concepts of time in history and culture
2.1 The Clock and the Calendar
2.2 Time interval systems, "passage", and space-time metaphor
2.3 Time in the Amondawa language
3. Concluding reflections
References
Part II. Bilingual processing: Language representation and language use
Efficiency of the bilingual mind
1. Introduction
2. Efficiency as the driving force
3. Words and beyond: Storage and activation
4. Bilingual syntax(es?)
5. See, say, and store: Language-memory synergy in bilinguals
6. Harnessing efficiency in second language acquisition
7. Conclusion
References
About phonological, grammatical, and semantic accents in bilinguals' language use and their cause
1. Introduction
2. Parallel activation in bilingual memory
2.1 Parallel activation in bilingual word recognition
2.2 Parallel activation in bilingual word production
3. Accents in bilinguals' language use
3.1 Phonological accents
3.2 Grammatical accents
3.3 Semantic accents
4. Conclusion
References
Aging and bilingual processing: Age-related and individual differences in groups of early bilingual
1. Introduction
2. Verbal production and verbal fluency
3. Bilingualism and executive control
4. Language background and language use
5. Methodology
5.1 Participants
5.2 Procedure, general
6. Results
7. Discussion and conclusion
References
L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning
1. Introduction
2. Working hypothesis and experiment design
2.1 Experiment 1: Normative study - identification of cultural variations in prototypicality
2.2 Experiment 2: A no-cued English-word-learning and immediate cued-recall task
3. Discussion
4. Conclusion
References
Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood
1. Introduction: The bilingual language mode
2. Previous research on bilingual transfer in compounding
3. Methodology of data elicitation and analysis
3.1 Nominal compounds in Maori and English
3.2 Task design and participants
3.3 Data analysis
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Name index
Subject index
Language index

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