Dr. Titone will be presenting the work titled “Language(s) in Context: A Systems View of Multilingualism.” We look forward to having you with us!
Abstract: Most people around the globe communicate daily using more than one language. Moreover, global patterns of language use are driven by a variety of historic and current social forces that can operate at an individual level. This has led some to theorize that multilingualism possesses the hallmarks of a complex cognitive system (e.g., Atkinson et al., 2016; de Bot, Lowie, and Verspoor, 2007; Titone & Tiv, 2022; Tiv et al., 2022), which is amenable to a socioecological theoretical frame. In this talk, I review empirical work from my laboratory that endeavors to quantify social patterns of language use to assess their impact on both language processing and cognition more generally. This work is guided by a Systems View of Bilingualism (e.g., Titone & Tiv, 2022) that encourages an inclusive understanding of multilingual experience that bridges individual, interpersonal, and socioecological levels.
For more information, contact: Merrisa Lin at merrisa.lin@uconn.edu