ABSTRACT
A central question for philosophers, psychologists and linguists for many years has been how what we think relates to what we say. This introduction sketches some possible relationships between cognition and language as a prologue to the rest of the book. It is intended as an impressionistic snapshot from an applied linguist to involve readers with some of the issues and potentialities of this exciting area of research. Bilingualism is the subject of a separate overview in Chapter 7.
