Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

Download or read book Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism written by Istvan Kecskes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has a uniquely cognitive-functional perspective on bi-lingualism. This means that it makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. The authors examine too some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism, such as, among others, gender systems in the bilingual mind, synergic concepts, and ontological categorization.