Essays about: "Chinese - English bilinguals"

Found 1 essay containing the words Chinese - English bilinguals.

  1. 1. How Chinese - English Bilinguals Think About Time : The Effects of Language on Space-Time Mappings

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Qiu Jun Zhang; [2020]
    Keywords : Linguistic relativity; Chinese - English bilinguals; mental representations of time; spatial-temporal metaphors; language experience;

    Abstract : The last decades have witnessed the resurgence of research on linguistic relativity, which provides empirical evidence of possible language effects on thought across various perceptual domains. This study investigated the linguistic relativity hypothesis in the abstract domain of time by looking at how L1 Chinese - L2 English bilinguals conceptualize time in two-dimensional space. READ MORE