Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kecskes, Istvan (Editor), Albertazzi, Liliana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Applied linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Language and education.; Cognitive psychology.; Applied Linguistics.; Cognitive Psychology.; Language Education.; Philosophy of Language.
• Physical Description: XIV, 362 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781402059353

A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.