EMBODIEDSOCIALCOM

Embodiment of social communication: The affective and sensory bases of second language in early and late bilinguals

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT    more  Organization address address: Heidelberglaan 8 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Frank Jan Cognome: Van Dijk Email: send email Telefono: +31 30 2533444
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Netherlands [NL]
Totale costo	183˙805 €
EC contributo	183˙805 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-03-01   -   2014-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT  Organization address address: Heidelberglaan 8 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Frank Jan Cognome: Van Dijk Email: send email Telefono: +31 30 2533444	NL (UTRECHT)	coordinator	183˙805.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The proposed research program consists of a series of integrated experiments designed to make a contribution to an improved understanding of communication dynamics in the current reality of multicultural societies that requires participation in two (or more) linguistic communities. Specifically the research investigates the implications of emotion language in primary (L1) and secondary language (L2) in early and late bilinguals. The general argument is that the modalities that ground concepts in L1 and L2 are unlikely to be equivalent on behavioral and physiological indicators, particularly with late bilinguals. The main theoretical contribution of this proposal is to be found in the implications that this research is likely to have to the current debate on the embodiment perspective on language. As far as we know, these are the first studies on embodiment using bilingual samples, which may lend new and additional support to the assumptions that cognition and language are grounded on affective bodily states and identify the constrains of such assumptions when L2 is at stake. The applied implications of investigating differences in the modality driven grounding of concepts between L1 and L2 are far reaching for intercultural communication. The proposed research elucidates the factors and conditions that constrain the use of L2 in everyday discourse across a variety of contexts where the daily use of a second language for professional, recreational and interpersonal purposes is increasingly required and has implications for the educational policies regarding second language acquisition.'