Multiple Voices

Author: Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
This text provides a comprehensive overview of all major asepcts of bilingualism. It is primarily concerned with bilingualis as a socio-political phenomenon in the world and, as such, emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy, and bilingual education.

Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism

Author: Elizabeth Lanza
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199265060
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.

Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Christina Bratt Paulston
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853594168
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
This text aims to provide an introductory study of linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe taking into account historical development, present situation, language maintenance and shift as well as language and educational policies of each country included in this study.

Power, Prestige, and Bilingualism

Author: Anne-Marie De Mejía
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595905
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
This book describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as 'elite' or 'prestigious' bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is discussed and an argument is made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.

At War with Diversity

Author: James Crawford
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595059
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S. politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on education policy. The book also explores efforts to resist the English-only trend, including projects to revitalize Native American languages.

Mixing Two Languages

Author: Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110138375
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description

Introduction to Bilingualism

Author: Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887662
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. At the level of the individual, it addresses such questios as: What is involved in the study of bilingual children? What are the patterns of bilingual language acquisition? In which ways do the language competence and the speech of bilinguals differ from those of monolinguals? Topics that sometimes arouse controversy are explored - such as the question of whether there is a relationship between bilingualsim and a child's cognitive, psychological and social development. The book is also concerned with multilingualism, that is, bilingualsim as a societal phenomenon. It focuses on such issues as language choice in bilingual and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. The inclusion of several case studies of European linguistic minorities serves to exemplify the topics dealt with at the theoretical level and to illustrate the linguistic complexities found in contemporary Europe.

A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

Author: Jeff MacSwan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815332749
Category : Code switching (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy

Author: Janina Brutt-Griffler
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853597558
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy brings an understanding of language as a social practice and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe, and the developing countries. Focusing both on bilingual linguistic competence and educational politics and practice, the volume provides valuable practical proposals and models for developing sociocultural and linguistic competencies among bilingual practitioners and students.

Babel Or Behemoth

Author: Jennifer Lindsay
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789810490751
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This book presents essays by scholars and practictioners about some trends in language across Asia, looking at language issues as they arise in some of the multiple negotiations and translations with which many Asians live on a daily basis.