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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.
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores
spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and
cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and
Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of
original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these
traditions as typologically and historically related. This curated
selection of the traditions allows readers to compare and highlight
convergences, while the description and comparison of the
traditions challenges colonial erasures and expands knowledge about
endangered cultures. The inclusion of spirit-based traditions from
a broad geographical area emphasizes the typology of religion over
ethnic compartmentalization. The individuals and communities
studied in this collection serve spirits through ritual, singing,
instruments, initiation, embodiment via possession or trance,
veneration of nature, and, among some indigenous people, the
consumption of ritual psychoactive entheogens. Indigenous and
African diaspora practices focused on service to ancestors and
spirits reflect ancient substrates of religiosity. The rationale to
separate them on disciplinary, ethnic, linguistic, geographical, or
historical grounds evaporates in our interconnected world. Shared
cultural, historical, and structural features of American
indigenous and African diaspora spirit-based traditions mutually
deserve our attention since the analyses and dialogues give way to
discoveries about deep commonalities and divergences among
religions and philosophies. Still struggling against the effects of
colonialism, enslavement, and extinction, the practitioners of
these spirit-based religious traditions hold on to important but
vulnerable parts of humanity's cultural heritage. These readings
make possible journeys of recognition as well as discovery.
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.
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores
spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and
cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and
Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of
original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these
traditions as typologically and historically related. This curated
selection of the traditions allows readers to compare and highlight
convergences, while the description and comparison of the
traditions challenges colonial erasures and expands knowledge about
endangered cultures. The inclusion of spirit-based traditions from
a broad geographical area emphasizes the typology of religion over
ethnic compartmentalization. The individuals and communities
studied in this collection serve spirits through ritual, singing,
instruments, initiation, embodiment via possession or trance,
veneration of nature, and, among some indigenous people, the
consumption of ritual psychoactive entheogens. Indigenous and
African diaspora practices focused on service to ancestors and
spirits reflect ancient substrates of religiosity. The rationale to
separate them on disciplinary, ethnic, linguistic, geographical, or
historical grounds evaporates in our interconnected world. Shared
cultural, historical, and structural features of American
indigenous and African diaspora spirit-based traditions mutually
deserve our attention since the analyses and dialogues give way to
discoveries about deep commonalities and divergences among
religions and philosophies. Still struggling against the effects of
colonialism, enslavement, and extinction, the practitioners of
these spirit-based religious traditions hold on to important but
vulnerable parts of humanity's cultural heritage. These readings
make possible journeys of recognition as well as discovery.
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