Medina Šahinović

A Qualitative Inquiry into Cognitive and Perceptual Processes among Speakers of Three or More Languages

Multilingual individuals often report that the language they use can influence how they think, remember, and create. Drawing on three complementary theoretical strands, Vygotsky’s account of inner speech as an internalized cognitive tool, linguistic relativity (the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis), and research on the bilingual...