Review of The Mysteries of Bilingualism, by François Grosjean (original) (raw)

International research on bilingualism: Cross-language and cross-cultural perspectives

Ethnologia, 2018

Linguistics and the science of Anthropology have much in common. In fact, to a large extent the two fields overlap. Field workers utilize research models of the ethnographic type as well as approaches that are experimental, methods that are qualitative as well as quantitative, for example. The study of language contact and bilingualism, topic of this paper, presents a good opportunity for drawing on contributions from the two overlapping fields. The focus of the following review of current research will be mainly from the cognitive science point of view, divided into four areas of recent work: (1) bilingual development, first and second language learning and language loss, (2) creolization and convergence, (3) codeswitching and borrowing, and (4) problems related to the distinction between language and dialect.

An Investigation of Bilingualism

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2018

The present article deals with some facts about the investigation of bilingualism. It also studies the revealing of the forms and principles of occurrence of historical factors in the language and provides a short insight into the history and setting the problem. The attitude of an individual towards reality phenomena such as his/her way of clothing, his/her behavior, his/her way of speaking, etc. demonstrate the nation he/she represents. It is stated in the research that it is not difficult for human beings to be bilingual. Growing world can demonstrate itself by its people using two, three, or more languages. The research also touches upon the fact that there exist many kinds and degrees of bilingualism and bilingual situations. The article highlights the cultural factors and their effects in bilingualism as well. The ways of defining common and distinguishing features of expressing the interrelation factors in multi-system languages are investigated in the research too. Accordin...

Cognitive aspects of bilingualism

2007

A CIP Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4020-5934-6 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5935-3 (e-book) Published by Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www. springer. com Printed on acid-free paper ...

Bilingualism and Second Language Learning

1971

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