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Publication details [#28870]

Schumann, John H. 1993. The brain looks at diversity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 14 (4) : 321–328.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

brain | ethnicity | language and society | metaphor | neurolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper employs three neural metaphors -the hunter-gather, triune and split brain- to explain biological tendencies that might cause problems for multiethnic societies.