On the Relationship between Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Creativity

论双语、双文化与创造力的关系

• 批准号: 0414013
• 负责人: Arthur Reber
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: CUNY Brooklyn College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0414013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Relationship; between; Bilingualism; Biculturalism; Creativity

What are consequences for cognition of living in multiple cultures? Despite the salience of this topic for modern life, not much is known about multiculturalism. One hypothesis is that some benefits come naturally from living in more than one culture and speaking more than one language. Bicultural and bilingual experiences may encourage divergent thinking and cognitive flexibility, which together facilitate creative thought. With support from NSF, Dr. Arthur Reber and Anatoliy Kharkhurin, M.A., will explore this working hypothesis. Mr. Kharkhurin will conduct a cross-regional study of divergent thinking that compares Russian-English bilingual emigrants who live in the United States, Russian-English bilinguals who always have and continue to live in Russia, and monolingual groups in both cultures. Broader impacts include a better understanding of cultural diversity and bilingualism. Moreover this research will be conducted in the context of Mr. Kharkhurin's doctoral dissertation and thereby contributes to his graduate education.

生活在多元文化中的认知会有什么后果？ 尽管这个话题在现代生活中很突出，但人们对多元文化主义知之甚少。 一种假设是，生活在一种以上的文化中，说一种以上的语言，自然会带来一些好处。 双文化和双语经验可以鼓励发散性思维和认知灵活性，这两者共同促进创造性思维。 在NSF、亚瑟·雷伯博士和Anatoliy Kharkhurin，M.A.的支持下，将探索这一工作假设。 Kharkhurin先生将进行一项关于发散思维的跨区域研究，比较居住在美国的俄英双语移民、一直并继续居住在俄罗斯的俄英双语者以及两种文化中的单语群体。 更广泛的影响包括更好地理解文化多样性和双语。 此外，这项研究将结合Kharkhurin先生的博士论文进行，从而有助于他的研究生教育。