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Multilingual cognition and language use : processing and typological perspectives /
Set in the context of bilingualism in Maori and English, this chapter discusses the interpretation of novel English compounds as right or left-headed. The aim is to report evidence of structural transfer in bilinguals on the level of word formation. In accordance with Grosjean (2012), this study pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
©2014.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 vocabulary1. 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.