Description
Book SynopsisThis book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition. This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The methodological approaches vary from linguistic descriptions and corpus analyses to experimental methods such as eye-tracking or speech elicitation. The book shows that diversity in cognition plays a key role in linguistics encoding, event conceptualization, reception of music and general literacy. Cognitive diversity can even be seen to shape human interaction and communication. The book offers new insights and fresh approaches to the discourse on diversity in and beyond cognition.
Table of ContentsTable of contents - Barbara Mertins - Introduction to the book - Maryam Fatemi - Synchronic Overview of Grammatical Gender Marking in Indo-European Languages - Kerstin Leimbrink, Janina Harwardt, Ian Lowes & Barbara Mertins - Zusammenhänge von Sprache, Musik und Kognition: Eine explorative Studie zu sprachspezifischen Merkmalen in deutschen, tschechischen, französischen und englischen Volksliedern - Anna Marklová and Barbara Mertins - Perception of Goal-oriented Locomotion Events in Monolingual and Bilingual Adults – Free-viewing eye-tracking study - Christopher J. Hall - English as a Lingua Franca as an expression of linguistic diversity: a cognitive perspective - Hanna S. Andersen - With Norwegian eyes. The verbalization of goal-oriented motion events in Norwegian - Katrin Odermann - Mehrsprachigkeit und Schriftspracherwerb: Vorteile von Mehrsprachigkeit durch früh entwickeltes metalinguistisches Bewusstsein - Hendrik Trescher - Leichte Sprache – Anlass zur Diskussion - Renate Delucchi Danhier - Diversitätsembleme als individualisierte Visualisierungsform persönlicher Daten im Sinne des Datenhumanismus
