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Aparicio, Xavier; Bairstow, Dominique – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Cinema is in part a reflection of our society and, in these times of cultural mix, it is more and more common to find different language communities appearing on-screen together. Thus, it is not unusual to have to process (voluntarily or not) more than one language throughout the day. From a cognitive point of view, language switching is widely…
Descriptors: Films, Code Switching (Language), Interference (Language), Multilingualism
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Gabrys-Barker, Danuta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study looks at the levels of activation of different languages a trilingual language user operates in at the moment of text construction in one of these languages. Forty-eight Portuguese advanced users of English (L2) and intermediate in German (L3) were asked to perform a translation task. The subjects were divided into two subgroups:…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Language Proficiency