Bilingualism: Beyond Basic Principles
The nine original papers in this volume have been written by international experts and deal with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena, addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered. The perspective adopted is multidisciplinary, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, and applied...
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The papers in this volume have been written by leading scholars in the field of bilingualism and deal with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena, addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity, not only in depth of investigation and in topical variety but also in the range of languages and geographical regions covered. Another important feature of the volume is its multidisciplinary perspective. Among the contributors are linguists, sociologists, psychologists and sociolinguists.
PrefaceContributorsIntroduction and Overview11Who is Afraid of Bilingualism?102The Importance of Being Bilingual283Towards a More Language-centred Approach to Plurilingualism434Bilingual Education: Basic Principles565Bilingual Encounters in the Classroom676Language Planning: A Grounded Approach887Accepting Bilingualism as a Language Policy: An Unfolding Southeast Asian Story1128Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in Language Maintenance and Language Shift1289The Imagined Learner of Malay14110Code-switching and Unbalanced Bilingualism17411Code-switching: Evidence of Both Flexibility and Rigidity in Language18912Rethinking Bilingual Acquisition204Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore - No Hyphen Please!229Index233
