**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**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 learning
- Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics
- Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines
- Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling
- Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce
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The most profound and authoritative reference source in the field. Nowhere else can one find to the same degree such a comprehensive and thought provoking presentation of all the major concepts and approaches pertaining to the field... The volume is an absolute must-read for any student and researcher in the field of bi-/multilingualism and the adjacent spheres of language contact, language and globalization, second language acquisition, cross-cultural communication, world Englishes, and others. (World Englishes, 10 February 2014)
Acknowledgments xi Contributors xii Introduction xxi Tej K. Bhatia
and William C. Ritchie Part I Overview and Foundations 1 Introduction 3
Tej K. Bhatia 1 Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts 5
John Edwards 2 Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Bilingualism and
Multilingualism Research 26 Li Wei Part II Neurological and Psychological
Aspects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism 53 Introduction 55 William C.
Ritchie The Neurology of Bilingualism and Multilingualism 59 3 Bilingual
Aphasia: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations 61 Elizabeth Ijalba,
Loraine K. Obler, and Shyamala Chengappa Approaches to Bilingualism,
Multilingualism, and Second-Language Acquisition 85 4 The Bilingual Child 87
Ludovica Serratrice 5 Bilingualism/Multilingualism and Second-Language
Acquisition 109 Yuko Goto Butler 6 Multilingualism: New Perspectives on
Syntactic Development 137 Eva Berkes and Suzanne Flynn 7 Bilingualism and
the Heritage Language Speaker 168 Silvina Montrul Bilingual and
Multilingual Language Use: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Production 191 8
Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon 193
Pieter Muysken 9 The Comprehension of Words and Sentences in Two Languages
216 Judith F. Kroll and Paola E. Dussias 10 An Appraisal of the Bilingual
Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from
Monolinguals? 244 Elin Runnqvist, Ian FitzPatrick, Kristof Strijkers, and
Albert Costa Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Memory, Cognition, and
Emotion 267 11 Bilingual Memory 269 Roberto R. Heredia and Jeffrey M. Brown
12 Bilingualism and Emotion: Implications for Mental Health 292 Ines
Martinovic and Jeanette Altarriba The Bilingual s and Multilingual s
Repertoire: Code-Mixing, Code-Switching, and Communication Accommodation 321
13 Code-Switching and Grammatical Theory 323 Jeff MacSwan 14 Sign Language
Spoken Language Bilingualism and the Derivation of Bimodally Mixed Sentences
351 Gerald P. Berent 15 Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing
375 William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia 16 Accommodating Multilinguality
391 Itesh Sachdev, Howard Giles, and Anne Pauwels 17 Bilingualism and
Gesture 417 Marianne Gullberg Part III Societal
Bilingualism/Multilingualism and its Effects 439 Introduction 441 Tej K.
Bhatia Language Contact, Maintenance, and Endangerment 443 18 The Bilingual
and Multilingual Community 445 Suzanne Romaine 19 Language Maintenance,
Language Shift, and Reversing Language Shift 466 Joshua A. Fishman 20
Linguistic Imperialism and Endangered Languages 495 Robert Phillipson and
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 21 Multilingualism, Indigenization, and Creolization
517 Jeff Siegel 22 Multilingualism and Family Welfare 542 Xiao-Lei Wang
Bilingualism and Multilingualism: The Media, Education, Literacy, and the Law
563 23 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the Global Media and Advertising
565 Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie 24 Bilingual Education 598 Wayne
E. Wright 25 The Impact of Bilingualism on Language and Literacy Development
624 Ellen Bialystok 26 Bilingualism and Writing Systems 649 Benedetta
Bassetti 27 Multilingualism and Forensic Linguistics 671 Tej K. Bhatia and
William C. Ritchie Part IV Global Perspectives and Challenges: Case Studies
701 Introduction 703 William C. Ritchie 28 Bilingualism and
Multilingualism in North America 707 William F. Mackey 29 Bilingualism in
Latin America 725 Anna Maria Escobar 30 Bilingualism in Europe 745 Andree
Tabouret-Keller 31 Turkish as an Immigrant Language in Europe 770 Ad Backus
32 Multilingualism in Southern Africa 791 Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu 33
Multilingualism in Greater China and the Chinese Language Diaspora 813
Sherman Lee and David C. S. Li 34 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in South
Asia 843 Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie 35 Multilingualism and
Language Renewal in Ex-Soviet Central Asia 871 Birgit N. Schlyter 36
Bilingualism/Multilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa: A Focus on
Cross-National and Diglossic Bilingualism/Multilingualism 899 Judith
Rosenhouse Index 920
Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the Chancellor s Citation Award for excellence in research. Publications include Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (2000), Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition (2007), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India, 2nd Edition (2007), and The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with William C. Ritchie, 2009). William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University. His publications include an edited volume entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Issues and Implications (1978). He has co-edited four handbooks with Tej K. Bhatia, including Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (1999).
