Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 77)

ISBN 10: 1847693369 / ISBN 13: 9781847693365

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 77)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847693369
• ISBN 13: 9781847693365
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers. If languages influence the way we think, what happens to those who speak more than one language? And if they do not, how can we explain the difficulties second language learners experience in mapping new words and structures onto real-world referents? The contributors to this volume put forth a novel approach to second language learning, presenting it as a process that involves conceptual development and restructuring, and not simply the mapping of new forms onto pre-existing meanings.

About the Author

Aneta Pavlenko is Research Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oslo. Her research examines the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and emotions. She has testified in court as an expert in forensic linguistics, lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia, and authored more than a hundred articles and ten books, the most recent of which is The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is former President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award and the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.