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.
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