Main description:

This book fills a critical gap in the cross-cultural literature by illuminating the bilingual experience in both its social and clinical contexts. Rafael Javier makes a convincing, empirically founded case for what he terms the bilingual mind, with its own particular approach to cognition, memory, and emotional and social development. Using this framework, he provides answers to important questions about the way bilingualism affects cognition and development.

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?.