This article is about psycholinguistics in relation to conceptual representations. It states that for a bilingual speaker, languages are stored in a common lexical store. It also compares the difference between concrete and abstract words in relation to the conceptual representations, since abstract concepts are based on socially constructed knowledge. It describes the lexical representation in the monolingual mind as well as in bilingual minds, the types of bilinguals, types of organization in the bilingual minds, different models of mental representation for bilinguals and different kinds of translation in the conceptual and lexical levels.
Source: Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades; Departamento de Lenguas.
Tesis apresentada por: Caroline Anne Payant
