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The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction between dedicated linguistic systems and the other modules of the human mind. The latter provide the 'internal context' of bilingual processing. This internal context involves goals, value, emotion, self, and representations of the external context. The book combines all these elements into a coherent picture of the bilingual's internal context and the way it shapes processing. It then shows how some central concepts in cognitive science and bilingualism fit in with – and follow from – this view. These concepts include working memory, consciousness, attention, effort, codeswitching, and the possible cognitive benefits of being bilingual. The book should be of interest to professionals in the field as well as postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates.
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 August 2019
Published online on 9 August 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv
- List of MCF abbreviations | pp. xv–15
- Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–21
- Chapter 2. The Modular Cognition Framework | pp. 23–53
- Chapter 3. Outside in: External sources of internal context | pp. 55–79
- Chapter 4. Inherently internal context | pp. 81–99
- Chapter 5. Bilingual representation | pp. 101–124
- Chapter 6. Cognitive control and language control | pp. 125–150
- Chapter 7. Control as inherently internal context: Part I. Goals, value, and emotion as controllers | pp. 151–174
- Chapter 8. Control as inherently internal context: Part II. Self as controller | pp. 175–208
- Chapter 9. Coactivation phenomena | pp. 209–233
- Chapter 10. Internal context and attention, working memory, and effort | pp. 235–256
- Chapter 11. Consciousness and internal context | pp. 257–273
- Chapter 12. Conclusion | pp. 275–283
- References | pp. 285–320
- General index | pp. 321–324
- Name index | pp. 325–327
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