Linguistic relativity and bilingualism
(2012) p.236-255- Abstract
- If our native language affects our thinking, can learning a new language restructure our mental representations of reality and the world? The current chapter will attempt to answer that question, drawing on recent empirical evidence from a variety of research domains. We consider a range of variables that may modulate bilingual cognition and conceptualization, and we discuss the ways in which the ongoing investigation of the bilingual mind from a relativistic perspective has significantly added to our knowledge of how bilinguals mentally represent categories in their mind.
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- author
- Athanasopoulos, Panos LU and Aveledo, Fraibet
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Memory, language, and bilingualism : Theoretical and Applied Approaches - Theoretical and Applied Approaches
- editor
- Altarriba, Jeanette and Isurin, Ludmila
- pages
- 236 - 255
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107419865
- 9781139035279
- DOI
- 10.1017/CBO9781139035279.010
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 95190944-990c-4958-97e9-99b61b3f4475
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