This book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition. This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The methodological approaches vary from linguistic descriptions and corpus analyses to experimental methods such as eye-tracking or speech elicitation. The book shows that diversity in cognition plays a key role in linguistics encoding, event conceptualization, reception of music and general literacy. Cognitive diversity can even be seen to shape human interaction and communication. The book offers new insights and fresh approaches to the discourse on diversity in and beyond cognition.

Barbara Mertins is full Professor of Psycholinguistics at the TU Dortmund University, Germany, and the head of the psycholinguistics laboratories at the TU. Her main research topics include language processing of multilingualism, linguistic relativity, and language pathology. Renate Delucchi Danhier is a psycholinguist and holds a PhD from Heidelberg University. Her main research topics include bilingualism, space cognition, and data visualization.