Psychology of Bilingualism: The Cognitive and Emotional World of Bilinguals

Preface

SECTION I: THE INTERNAL WORLD OF THE BILINGUAL PERSON

1. Linguistic relativity in conceptual metaphors (Yanli Huang& Chi-Shing Tse, Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong)

2. Inner speech in bilinguals: The example of calculation abilities (Alfredo Ardila(1) & Monica Rosselli; (1) Florida International University; (2) Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, USA)

3. Emotional associations of words in L1 and L2 in bilinguals (Monica Rosselli(1), Idaly Velez-Uribe(1) & Alfredo Ardila(2); (1) Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL; (2) Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)

SECTION II: BILINGUAL LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION

4. Bilingual figurative language processing (Anna B. Cieslicka, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, USA)

5. The cost of being bilingual: The example of verbal fluency and switching (Jeanette Altarriba (1) & Stephanie A. Kazanas (2); (1) University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA; (2) Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA)

6. Bilingual episodic memory processes (Roberto R. Heredia and Elva A. García; Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, USA)

7. Active-passive bilingualism and the functional distance between L1 and L2 as viewed within one unifying theoretical framework (Mike Sharwood Smith. The University of Edinburgh & Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, United Kingdom)

SECTION III: BILINGUALISM ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN

8. Aging in bilinguals: Normal and abnormal (Aviva Lerman & Loraine K. Obler. City University of New York, NY, USA )

9. Dissociated language disorders in bilinguals (Alfredo Ardila, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)

SECTION IV: BILINGUAL COGNITIVE AND PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS

10. Psychopathology and bilingualism (Elizabeth Terrazas-Carrillo, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, USA)

11. Personality traits in bilinguals (Monica Rosselli (1), Idaly Velez-Uribe(1) & Alfredo Ardila (2); (1) Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL; (2) Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA)

12. Cognitive abilities in bilinguals when tested in L1 and L2 (Andy V. Pham, Florida International University, Sara Castro-Olivo, Texas A&M University, Heejung Chun, New Mexico State University, and Anisa N. Goforth, University of Montana