The Bilingual Mind Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Colección: | Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30914-9 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Bilingualism and Social Context. Linguistic communities. Fear of bilingualism? Traditional solution to the bilingual problem. Current state of affairs and the bilingual phenomenon
- II. Is There A Bilingual Mind? The bilingual process in context of the cognitive development. Evidence of the bilingual mind?
- III. Bilingual Linguistic Organization. The Coordinate-Compound Linguistic Organization Controversy. Compound linguistic system. Coordinate linguistic system. The Language Independence Phenomenon. Psychological/psychoanalytic observation. Psycholinguistic studies. Neurological evidence
- IV. Language Switching As A Communication. Factors Affecting Switching. Structural linguistic factors. Extra-linguistic and affective factors
- Role of stress in code-switching
- V. Bilingual Memory And Language of Affect. Bilingual memory models. Bilingual memory for meaningful information
- VI. Communication Through Interpreters. Communication process. Components of communication. Interpretation process. Challenges to accurate interpretation. Methods of interpretation. Common errors: Omission, Addition, Condensation, Substitution, Role exchange
- VII. Issues In Assessing The Bilingual Individual. Personal motivation/specific needs of the referring person. Linguistic challenges in the assessment process. Validity of the assessment instruments. Factors to be considered in assessing a bilingual individual. Selection of basic assessment instruments
- VIII. Treatment of the Bilingual Individual. Memory organization in bilingual patients. Nature of memory inaccessibility in a bilingual context. Technical consideration. Conclusion
- X. Future of Bilingualism: What Should Be Our Response? Traditional response. There is no easy solution to the bilingual dilemma. There are signs of hope. Only a flexible model makes sense
- General Recommendations.