Demystifying Bilingualism: How Metaphor Guides Research Towards Mythification

by Silke Jansen, Sonja Higuera del Moral, Jessica Stefanie Barzen

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 manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030870626
• ISBN13: 9783030870621
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"