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The Bilingual Mental Lexicon. Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Aneta . Ed(S): Pavlenko
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Description for The Bilingual Mental Lexicon. Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Hardback. How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? Contributions to this volume offer up-to-date answers to these questions and provide a detailed introduction to interdisciplinary approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon. Editor(s): Pavlenko, Aneta. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? The first aim of this volume is to offer up-to-date answers to these questions. Its second aim is to provide readers with detailed step-by-step introductions to a variety of methodological approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon, from traditional neurocognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to the more recent ones that examine language use in context.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847691255
SKU
V9781847691255
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Ref
99-15
About Aneta . Ed(S): Pavlenko
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-author of Crosslinguistic Influence ... Read more
Reviews for The Bilingual Mental Lexicon. Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Conceptions of language representation are changing. Words are not static entries in a mental dictionary. Instead they are part of human communication, ever contextualised in people and their lives, languages, meanings, interactions, and selves. In bringing together lead researchers in the various relevant disciplines, Aneta Pavlenko produces a compelling account of this important new perspective as it applies to bilingualism. ... Read more