Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-145) and index.
Contents
Bilingualism and social context : an introduction -- Is there a bilingual mind? -- The bilingual linguistic organization -- Language switching as a communication -- Bilingual memory and the language of affect -- Communication through interpreters -- Issues in assessing the bilingual individual -- Treatment of the bilingual patients -- Future of bilingualism : what should be our response?
Summary
"The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages fills a critical gap in the cross-cultural literature by illuminating the bilingual experience in both its social and clinical contexts." "Rafael Javier makes an empirically founded case for what he terms the bilingual mind, with its own particular approach to cognition, memory, and emotional and social development."--Jacket.