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Joel Walters, Bilingualism: The sociopragmatic-psycholinguistic interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2007

Susan Meredith Burt
Susan Meredith Burt
Affiliation:
English, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4240, smburt@ilstu.edu
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Abstract

Joel Walters, Bilingualism: The sociopragmatic-psycholinguistic interface. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. Pp. xi, 323. Pb. $37.50.

In the Preface to this volume, Joel Walters explains why we need “yet another model of bilingual processing” (p. viii): The field of bilingualism is divided between researchers focused on the social situating and functions of bilingualism and those concerned with mental structures of bilingualism. Yet bilingual speakers function linguistically at the intersection of these two realms; Walters is concerned to construct a map of cognitive processes at that intersection. In other words, Walters takes on an enormous task: to construct a psycholinguistic model of bilingual processing that includes the wealth of social and pragmatic information that plays a role in bilingual speech and interaction.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 131 - 134
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2007 Cambridge University Press

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