Abstract Objective Traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors exhibit cognitive deficits. Research suggests that multilingualism can influence neurocognitive performance. We examined the effects of TBI and bilingualism/monolingualism on a test attention speed (i.e., Symbol Digit Modalities Test; SDMT). Method The sample consisted 55 healthy comparison (27 Spanish-English bilinguals; 28 English-mono...

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which second language (L2) pronunciation proficiency, language use, and age of L2 acquisition (AoA) are associated with variation in enhanced executive control in bilinguals. The secondary objective was to examine whether bilinguals’ executive control, as reflected in the incongruent response time for the Flanker task, differe...

Conflict is the most intriguing aspect of contact linguistics. Throughout history ever since the Tower of Babel was left unfinished, contacts between speakers of different languages have unavoidably resulted in conflicts between speakers of those languages. Without any doubt, the European Union (EU)--above all after the decision to enlarge the community--has accepted the multidisciplinary symbo...

The main purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to contexts where two conceptions of linguistic rights—the rights of languages and the rights of speakers—come into conflict. To illustrate such conflict, I will examine justifications of language laws adopted in two post-Soviet countries, Latvia and Ukraine. I will begin with an overview of Soviet language policies and their impact in ...

In the age of globalization, computerization, digitalization, problem presence such qualities as soft skills, which include emotional intelligence, communication ability to solve problems, make decisions, work in a team, independence, introspection, selforganization, reflection and other qualities, is becoming urgent. These should ensure competitiveness young specialist constantly changing incr...

This paper emphasises the decolonial importance of geographical engagement with materiality language as an embodied and embedded relation. It shows how abstractions language(s) discrete, codified possessable objects participate in a ‘coloniality language’ that risks obscuring alternative geographies within, against beyond territorialised monolingualism colonial nation-state. Through considering...

To whatever extent we believe that monolingualism exists in this world, and/or it has an effect on literary work various languages, is important to ask whether such monolingualism(s) operate through brute suppression of other attentive control them, or half-hearted indifference them. Although state monolingualist practices differ from place and will reliably express a mix the inclinations outli...