Ebook: The handbook of bilingualism and multilingualism

Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learningProvides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguisticsBrings together a global team of international Read more... Bilingualism and multilingualism : some central concepts / John Edwards -- Conceptual and methodological issues in bilingualism and multilingualism research / Li Wei -- Bilingual aphasia : theoretical and clinical considerations / Elizabeth Ijalba, Loraine K. Obler, and Shyamala Chengappa -- The bilingual child / Ludovica Serratrice -- Bilingualism/multilinghualism and second language acquisition / Yuko G. Butler -- Multilingualism : new perspectives on syntactic development / Éva Berkes and Suzanne Flynn -- Bilingualism and the heritage language learner / Silvina Montrul -- Two linguistic systems in contact : grammar, phonology, and lexicon / Pieter Muysken -- The comprehension of words and sentences in two languages / Judith F. Kroll and Paola E. Dussias -- An appraisal of the bilingual language production system : quantitatively or qualitatively different from monolinguals / Elin Runnqvist, Ian Fitzpatrick, Kristof Strijkers, and Albert Costa -- Bilingual memory / Roberto R. Heredia and Jeffrey M. Brown -- Bilingualism and emotion : implications for mental health / Ines Martinovic and Jeanette Altarriba -- Code switching and grammatical theory / Jeff Macswan -- Sign language-spoken language bilingualism and the derivation of bimodally mixed sentences / Gerald P. Berent -- Social and psychological factors in language mixing / William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia -- Accommodating multilinguality / Itesh Sachdev, Howard Giles, and Jane Pauwels -- Bilingualism and gesture / Marianne Gullberg -- The bilingual and multilingual community / Suzanne Romaine -- Language maintenance, language shift, and reversing language shift / Joshua A. Fishman -- Language imperialism and endangered languages / Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Multilingualism, indigenization, and creolization / Jeff Siegel -- Multilingualism and family welfare / Xiao-Lei Wang -- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the global media and advertising / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Bilingual education / Wayne Wright -- The impact of bilingualism on language and literacy development / Ellen Bialystok -- Bilingualism and writing systems / Benedetta Bassetti -- Multilingualism and forensic linguistics / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Bilingualism in North America / William F. Mackey -- Bilingualism in Latin America / Anna María Escobar -- Bilingualism in Europe / Andrée Tabouret-Keller -- Turkish as an immigrant language in Europe / Ad Backus -- Multilingualism in southern Africa / Nkonko Kamwangamalu -- Multilingualism in greater China and the Chinese language diaspora / Sherman Lee and David C.S. Li -- Bilingualism and multilingualism in South Asia / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Multilingualism and language renewal in ex-Soviet Central Asia / Birgit N. Schlyter -- Bilingualism/multilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa : a focus on cross-national and diglossic bilingualism/multilingualism / Judith Rosenhouse