The Bilingual Mind And What It Tells Us about Language And Thought 1st Edition by Pavlenko ISBN 9780521888424 0521888425

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ISBN 10: 0521888425

ISBN 13: 9780521888424

Author:  Pavlenko A.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as ‘unusual’ or ‘messy’ subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind.

Table of contents: 

1 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the bilingual turn in the study of language and cognition

1.1 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: a story of manufactured consent

1.2 The bilingual turn in the study of language and cognition

1.3 The evolutionary turn in the study of language and cognition

2 Material worlds: linguistic categorization of the ‘kaleidoscopic flux of impressions’

2.1 Methodological approaches to the study of linguistic categorization

2.2 Referential indeterminacy and factors affecting lexical choice

2.3 Colors

2.4 Objects and substances

2.5 Language effects in categorical perception: color, cups, and cattle

3 Multidimensional worlds: number, time, and space as linguistic systems of symbolic relationships

3.1 Numbers

3.2 Time

3.3 Space

3.4 Language effects in numerical, temporal, and spatial cognition: three cows in the field

4 Dynamic worlds: linguistic construal of motion events

4.1 Motion

4.2 Event construal

4.3 Language effects in motion cognition: ‘reprogramming’ the mind

5 Narrative worlds: locating ourselves in storylines

5.1 Autobiographical memory: linguistic or non-linguistic?

5.2 Autobiographical narratives and their effects on autobiographical memory

5.3 Bilinguals’ autobiographical narratives and memories

5.4 Language effects in autobiographical memory: Damasio’s error?

6 Discursive worlds: inner speech, interpretive frames, and the accomplishment of intersubjectivity

6.1 Bilingualism and inner speech

6.2 Bilingualism and intersubjectivity

6.3 Language effects in the use of interpretive frames: speaking with a forked tongue?

7 Emotional worlds: emotion categorization, affective processing, and ascription of significance

7.1 Emotion theories and their implications for the bilingual mind

7.2 Emotions as linguistic categories

7.3 Emotions as social categories

7.4 Affective processing

7.5 Language effects in the bilingual body: ‘feeling for speaking’

8 The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and cogni-tion: some renegade thoughts

8.1 Whorfian effects of the first kind: the illusion of seamless concord

8.2 Whorfian effects of the second kind: thought insofar as it is linguistic

8.3 Whorfian effects of the third kind: destabilization of language effects

8.4 Where to from here? The bilingual turn in academic research

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