How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification
E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-3-030-87063-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive andComputational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Historical development and state of the art in research on the bilingual advantage.- Chapter 3: Unravelling language myths in academic discourse: Methodological considerations.- Chapter 4: Languages as objects, substances, and containers: The ontological foundations of language myths.- Chapter 5: National narratives as language myths: The metonymic conflation of languages, speakers and nations.- Chapter 6: Mind and language between the organic and the anorganic.- Chapter 7: The survival of the fittest: contention as the leading metaphor in understanding bilingualism.- Chapter 8: Deconstructing the "bilingual advantage": The fallacies of metaphorical thinking in science.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.