Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism

✍ Scribed by Carol Myers-Scotton

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 473
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. What’s a Language? What’s a Dialect? What “Social Work” do they do?......Page 31
3. Who is a Bilingual? What Factors Promote Bilingualism?......Page 50
4. Language Maintenance and Shift......Page 82
5. Ideologies and Attitudes......Page 122
6. The Social Motivations for Language Use in Interpersonal Interactions......Page 157
7. Inter-cultural Communication......Page 190
8. Lexical Borrowing......Page 223
9. What Happens to Grammars in Bilingual Contacts......Page 248
10. Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism......Page 303
11. Age of Acquisition and Success with a Second Language......Page 338
12. Language Policies and Globalization......Page 384
13. Conclusions......Page 427
References......Page 430
Index of Authors......Page 455
Index of Languages......Page 461
Index of Subjects......Page 464