ABSTRACT
Neurosemiotics is an emergent field devoted to charting the neural and experiential continuities of our communicative behavior. A rich opportunity to study these links is offered by bilingualism, the routine uses of two languages. Inherently variable, bilingualism represents a natural testbed for modeling the interplay between brain, cognition, and environment. This chapter presents a selective review of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic models and findings concerning the representation and control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system, also tackling communicative behavior from a neurosemiotic perspective. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of implementing a multidimensional approach integrating semiotics, psychology, and neurobiology for the study of bilingual communication.
