Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism
Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive overview of all major features of bilingualism, including grammatical, cognitive, and social aspects.\ \ examines bilingualism as a socio-political phenomenon and emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy, and bilingual education\ includes many detailed examples from all over the world\ written accessibly for students with little or no background in linguistics by a prominent...
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Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive overview of all major features of bilingualism, including grammatical, cognitive, and social aspects. examines bilingualism as a socio-political phenomenon and emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy, and bilingual education includes many detailed examples from all over the world written accessibly for students with little or no background in linguistics by a prominent bilingualism researcher
1Introduction12What's a language? : what's a dialect? : what "social work" do they do?163Who is a bilingual? : what factors promote bilingualism?354Language maintenance and shift675Ideologies and attitudes1076The social motivations for language use in interpersonal interactions1427Inter-cultural communication1758Lexical borrowing2089What happens to grammars in bilingual contacts23310Psycholinguistics and bilingualism28811Age of acquisition and success with a second language32312Language policies and globalization36913Conclusions412
\ From the Publisher"It's been hard to find a good textbook in bilingualism for undergraduate students in such diverse fields as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language policy; but Myers-Scotton, a leading scholar in the area, has met the need. Topics covered include language maintenance, language ideology, inter-cultural communication, lexical and grammatical borrowing, and language globalization. Numerous case studies from nations as far-flung as Italy, China, and Kenya, and from immigrant communities such as Turks in the Netherlands and Haitians in New York, make this a most attractive volume."\ William Bright, Editor Emeritus, Language in Society\ "Multiple Voices accomplishes a rare feat – it is both an accessible introduction to the study of bilingualism and a comprehensive treatment of research in the field. This is an ideal textbook for courses on language contact." Janet Fuller, Southern Illinois University\ "This introduction is not a simple synthesis of research and theory, but also a compendium of a lifetime of dedication to understanding bilingualism."\ Multilingua\ \ \
