Demystifying Bilingualism - How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular "language myths", which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in the brain using metaphors of struggle, conflict and competition. However, an ideological shift from nationalist and monolingual ideologies to the celebration of bilingualism under multicultural and neoliberal ideologies in the course of the 20th century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Silke Jansen • Sonja Higuera del Moral • Jessica Stefanie Barzen • Pia Reimann • Markus Opolka
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-087062-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-087062-6
Barcode:	9783030870621

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