Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics had, to a large extent, taken for granted the fact that language is embodied in our experience. However, not much attention was given to questions of whether any changes to our language repertoire alter the way we perceive the world around us. A growing body of recent research suggests that one cannot understand the cognitive foundations of language without looking at bi- and multilingual speakers. In this vein, the present book aims to contribute to the existing debate of...
Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics had, to a large extent, taken ...
This book presents an in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of key cognitive factors as they relate to second and foreign language learning, teaching, and testing. In particular, critical reviews of these cognitive aptitudes draw on multiple perspectives from both applied linguistics and cognitive science.
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This book presents an in-depth interdisciplinary understanding of key cognitive factors as they relate to second and foreign language learning, tea...
This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.
This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contribut...
This Reader is a comprehensive text outlining primary approaches to multimodality. In the -Theory and Methodology- section, the scholars who are responsible for the approaches' developments give some personal insight into how and/or why these approaches were developed. The Reader covers various theoretical and methodological approaches to multimodality, including a great variety of terminology, which are defined in a glossary, and are linked back to the personal narratives or interviews in which scholars highlight why and how the various terms are of importance.
Included is also a...
This Reader is a comprehensive text outlining primary approaches to multimodality. In the -Theory and Methodology- section, the scholars who are respo...
This volume addresses TBLT from various perspectives and aims to reflect the epistemological diversity in this area by drawing on multiple perspectives (i.e. cognitive-interactionist, complexity theory, sociocultural theory, and pedagogical/curricular). The volume brings together different ideas and theoretical frameworks and showcases distinct but complementary approaches to TBLT that could help the area prosper and mature in the future.
This volume addresses TBLT from various perspectives and aims to reflect the epistemological diversity in this area by drawing on multiple perspect...
