Televised whorf: Cognitive restructuring in advanced foreign language learners as a function of audiovisual media exposure

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 123-137

  Bylund, Emanuel ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Panos ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audiovisual media; English as a foreign language; Grammatical aspect; Linguistic relativity; Motion event; Multimodality; Swedish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908654606     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12182.x     Document Type: Article

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