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Part of
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 8] 2019
► pp. 175–208

Chapter 8
Control as inherently internal context

Part II. Self as controller

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The goal-based self as controller
    • 2.1The goal-based self and dominance within it
    • 2.2The goal-based self as language controller
  • 3.The role of the meta-self
    • 3.1The meta-self in cognitive control
    • 3.2The meta-self in language control
  • 4.Self-based and selfless cognitive control
    • 4.1The nature of self-based control
    • 4.2The process: Dynamic shifts in control
      • 4.2.1Control in trouble-free processing
      • 4.2.2Control with complications
      • 4.2.3Value and emotion in self-based and selfless control
    • 4.3An example of self-based and selfless control
    • 4.4The use of metalinguistic knowledge as self-based processing
  • 5.Self-based and selfless language control
    • 5.1The nature of self-based language control
    • 5.2Some examples of self-based language control
    • 5.3A more extended example
    • 5.4The case of switch costs
      • 5.4.1Factors underlying switch costs
      • 5.4.2A hypothesis
      • 5.4.3Conclusion
    • 5.5Interpreting
  • 6.The affective self as controller
  • 7.‘Self’ as controller?
    • 7.1‘Self’ as cognitive controller?
    • 7.2‘Self’ as language controller?
  • 8.The L2 self
  • 9.Conclusion
  • Notes