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Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

  • Cognitive-functional perspective on bilingualism
  • Unexplored issues such as gender systems, synergic concepts, context and task addressed
  • Focus both on the structure and functioning of the bilingual cognitive system
  • Bidirectional influence between language channels through the common underlying conceptual base

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Structure and Components of the Bilingual Cognitive System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. Synergic Concepts in the Bilingual Mind

      • Istvan Kecskes
      Pages 29-61
    3. Bilingualism and Cognitive Arithmetic

      • Elena Rusconi, Giovanni Galfano, Remo Job
      Pages 153-174
  3. Bilingual Language Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-212
    2. Second Language Gender System Affects First Language Gender Classification

      • Elena Andonova, Ani Gosheva, Armina Janyan, Jasmin Sadat Schaffai
      Pages 271-299

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Albany, USA

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Trento University, Rovereto, Italy

    Liliana Albertazzi

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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