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This 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.
List of contents
Table 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
About the author
Barbara Mertins is full Professor of Psycholinguistics at the TU Dortmund University, Germany, and the head of the
psycholinguistics laboratories at the TU. Her main research topics include language processing of multilingualism, linguistic relativity, and language pathology.
Renate Delucchi Danhier is a psycholinguist and holds a PhD from Heidelberg University. Her main research topics include bilingualism, space cognition, and data visualization.
