Back to search results

Bilingualism [electronic resource]

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Book

In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing--the Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic (SPPL) Model--which presents language as a social phenomenon. The author accomplishes this by identifying and organizing evidence from a wide range of linguistic disciplines, merging sociopragmatics

Title Bilingualism [electronic resource] : the sociopragmatic-psycholinguistic interface / Joel Walters.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum
Creation Date 2005
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-305) and indexes.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Bilingual Phenomena
2 Ten Perspectives on Bilingualism
3 A Functional Architecture of Bilingualism
4 Four Processing Mechanisms in Bilingual Production
5 Accounting for Bilingual Phenomena with the SPPL Model
6 Acquisition, Attrition, and Language Disturbances in Bilingualism
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Extent 1 online resource (335 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010707772405171
MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

Bilinguality and bilingualism / Josiane F. Hamers and Michel H.A. Blanc. [electronic resource]
Book
Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond : questions and insights / edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian.
Book
Bilingualism in the USA [electronic resource] : the case of the Chicano-Latino community / Fredric Field.
Book

This may also interest you

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

While we all sit, as we do every year, at the Seder table, while we sing, ask questions, read the Haggadah and enjoy the holiday meal, hundreds of families among us will not be able to do this. Their holiday spirit, their joy, their loved ones were taken from them.  Their loved ones were kidna

To the article on our blog
Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

As opposed to the Passover Haggadah, the Jewish Midrash tells us of the significant role played by Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus from Egypt. Every Passover we are told of the Children of Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom, but it often goes unmentioned that Miriam the Prophetess, sister

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject