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• Title:Translanguaging and the bilingual brain : a mixed methods approach to word-formation and language processing / Nina Dumrukcic.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dumrukcic, Nina, author.
  
• Published/Created:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P115 .D85 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bilingualism.
  Multilingual communication.
  Natural language processing (Computer science)
  
• Medical Subjects: Natural Language Processing.
  
• Description:xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Diskursmuster ; Bd. 28.
  
• Summary:Multilingual classrooms and online communication are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse due to globalization and new discourse patterns are emerging. Many of these patterns include the use of linguistic resources from multiple languages in the same utterance. Translanguaging, a recent theoretical framework, is gaining prominence among scholars interested in studying these multilingual discursive practices and the concept of a unitary language system for lexical processing. The aim of this book is to gain a better understanding of the bilingual brain and how words and sentences that use features from socially distinct languages are processed. Using examples provided by multilingual study participants, a categorization of the various forms of translanguaging is developed to build a translanguaging model. Psycholinguistic methods such as eye tracking are combined with conventional sociolinguistic survey methodology to provide rich qualitative and quantitative data that address the cognitive effects of translanguaging and the underlying structure of translingual word-formations. This monograph shows how language biography, exposure, and attitude towards multilingual discursive practices all affect cognitive processing. It also demonstrates how multilingual speakers are setting the patterns for novel word-formations to be produced, thus having a social, cultural, and cognitive impact on how we communicate.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:3110754029 hardcover
  9783110754025 hardcover
  9783110755640 electronic book
  9783110755671 electronic publication
  
• Contents:Frontmatter
  Acknowledgments
  Contents
  List of Figures
  List of Tables
  1 Introduction
  2 Translanguaging Theory
  3 Multilingual Discourse Practices
  4 The Bilingual Reader
  5 Mixed Methods Approach to Bilingualism
  6 The Translanguaging Model
  7 Translingual Word-Formation
  8 Conclusion
  Appendix 1 Steps in Experiment Design
  Appendix 2 Survey on Multilingual Discourse and Grammaticality Judgment Task
  Appendix 3 Survey on German-English Word-Formation
  Appendix 4 Language Proficiency Assessment Form
  Appendix 5 Eye-Tracking Experiment Follow-up Questions
  Appendix 6 Sentences used as Stimuli
  Appendix 7 Frequency of Items
  References
  Index.