The Inteal Context of Bilingual Processing (Bilingual Processing and Acquisition)

by: John Truscott (Author),Michael Sharwood Smith(Author)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Publication Date: August 26, 2019

Language: English

Print Length: 343 pages

ISBN-10: 9027204004

ISBN-13: 9789027204004

Book Description

This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction between dedicated linguistic systems and the other modules of the human mind. The latter provide the 'inteal context' of bilingual processing. This inteal context involves goals, value, emotion, self, and representations of the exteal context. The book combines all these elements into a coherent picture of the bilingual's inteal context and the way it shapes processing. It then shows how some central concepts in cognitive science and bilingualism fit in with – and follow from – this view. These concepts include working memory, consciousness, attention, effort, codeswitching, and the possible cognitive benefits of being bilingual. The book should be of interest to professionals in the field as well as postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates.
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction between dedicated linguistic systems and the other modules of the human mind. The latter provide the 'inteal context' of bilingual processing. This inteal context involves goals, value, emotion, self, and representations of the exteal context. The book combines all these elements into a coherent picture of the bilingual's inteal context and the way it shapes processing. It then shows how some central concepts in cognitive science and bilingualism fit in with – and follow from – this view. These concepts include working memory, consciousness, attention, effort, codeswitching, and the possible cognitive benefits of being bilingual. The book should be of interest to professionals in the field as well as postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. Read more