Demystifying Bilingualism How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification
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 mani...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Historical development and state of the art in research on the bilingual advantage
- Chapter 3: Unravelling language myths in academic discourse: Methodological considerations
- Chapter 4: Languages as objects, substances, and containers: The ontological foundations of language myths
- Chapter 5: National narratives as language myths: The metonymic conflation of languages, speakers and nations
- Chapter 6: Mind and language between the organic and the anorganic
- Chapter 7: The survival of the fittest: contention as the leading metaphor in understanding bilingualism
- Chapter 8: Deconstructing the "bilingual advantage": The fallacies of metaphorical thinking in science
- Chapter 9: Conclusion.