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Language and Bilingual Cognition Language and Bilingual Cognition Edited by Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti Published in 2011 by Psychology Press 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 www.psypress.com Published in Great Britain by Psychology Press 27 Church Road Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2011. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. Psychology Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Copyright © 2011 by Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-203-83685-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN: 978–1–84872–924–7(Print Edition) Contents Preface and acknowledgments ix List of contributors xi PARTA Language and cognition 1 1 Relating language and cognition: The speaker of one language 3 VIVIAN COOK 2 How does language affect thought? 23 CHRIS SWOYER 3 Language and cognition: The view from anthropology 43 JOHN LUCY 4 Language and cognition: The view from cognitive linguistics 69 VYVYAN EVANS 5 Interactive influences of language and cognition 109 VIRGINIA C. MUELLER GATHERCOLE 6 Tools for thinking 131 BARBARA TVERSKY PARTB Bilingual cognition 141 7 Relating language and cognition: The second language user 143 BENEDETTA BASSETTI AND VIVIAN COOK vi Contents 8 Bilingualism and cognition: The perspective from semantics 191 ANNA WIERZBICKA 9 Advances in the study of bilingualism: A personal view 219 SUSAN ERVIN-TRIPP 10 Bilingual worlds 229 DAVID W. GREEN 11 Color and bilingual cognition 241 PANOS ATHANASOPOULOS 12 Spatial language and second language acquisition 263 KENNY R. COVENTRY, PEDRO GUIJARRO-FUENTES, AND BERENICE VALDÉS 13 Perception of motion by Polish–English bilinguals 287 NATALIA CZECHOWSKA AND ANNA EWERT 14 Expressing voluntary motion in a second language: English learners of French 315 HENRIETTE HENDRIKS AND MAYA HICKMANN 15 Chinese–English bilinguals’ sensitivity to the temporal phase of an action event is related to the extent of their experience with English 341 JENN-YEU CHEN AND JUI-JU SU 16 The grammatical and conceptual gender of animals in second language users 357 BENEDETTA BASSETTI 17 The interpretation of emblematic gestures in second language users of Italian 385 GIULIANA SALVATO 18 Yo no lo tiré, se cayó solito, ‘I did not throw it, it just fell down’: Interpreting and recounting accidental events in Spanish and English 407 DEBBIE S. CUNNINGHAM, JYOTSNA VAID, AND HSIN CHIN CHEN Contents vii 19 Theory of Mind and bilingual cognition 431 MICHAEL SIEGAL, CHIYOKO KOBAYASHI FRANK, LUCA SURIAN, AND ERLAND HJELMQUIST 20 Bilingualism and the impact of emotion: The role of experience, memory, and sociolinguistic factors 453 HUGH KNICKERBOCKER AND JEANETTE ALTARRIBA 21 Emotions in bilingual life narratives 479 MARY BESEMERES PARTC Applications and implications of bilingual cognition research 507 22 Linguistic relativity and language teaching 509 VIVIAN COOK 23 Translation and bilingual cognition 519 JULIANE HOUSE 24 Culture and cognition in the study of intercultural communication 529 PETER SERCOMBE AND TONY YOUNG 25 Advertising to the buy-lingual consumer 543 DAVID LUNA Epilogue: Bilinguals save the world 559 KEITH BROOKE Author index 565 Subject index 581 Preface and acknowledgments It has been a great delight working on this book because of the interest that our contributors have provided. We are privileged to have had the chance to publish such stimulating contributions to the new and exploding field of language and bilingual cognition research, and would like to thank the contributors for their willingness to take part in this long and compli- cated project. Benedetta Bassetti would like to thank her parents for their continuous support while she was working on this volume. Vivian Cook would like to remember Karen Woo, whom he knew for more than twenty years, one of the finest contemporary dancers of her generation, who retrained as a doctor and gave her life while treating the people of Nuristan. As always the book would never have been finished without the constant assistance of (on one author’s loudspeakers) Sonny Rollins, Humphrey Lyttelton, and Branford Marsalis, and (on the other’s) Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Jacques Duphly, and Jean-Philippe Rameau—fortunately seldom playing simultaneously in the same office.
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