Journeying Across Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Causality and Agency Across Cultures and Languages

Why does wood float on water? What made Jim shout at me, and why had he to be so offending? Who is responsible for my son’s sickness? And why should incest be wrong? All these questions share one important feature: They ask for causal explanations. Causality is a core concept in our attempts to make sense of the physical world and of social interactions; and this makes causal cognition a topic ...

Modern Languages and Literatures

The Department provides for its major and minor students in French, German, and Spanish, and minor students in Italian, programs of study that are conducive to developing competence in the spoken and written language, with a broad and deep knowledge of the literature and culture of the target languages. The Department offers to its students of Chinese and Japanese a program of study conducive t...

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Emotion Inferences from Vocal Expression Correlate across Languages and Cultures