Tej K. Bhatia & William C. Ritchie 
The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism [EPUB ebook] 

**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

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I Overview and Foundations
Introduction
1 Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts
2 Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research

Part II Neurological and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Introduction
The Neurology of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

3 Bilingual Aphasia: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations

Approaches to Bilingualism, Multilingualism, and Language Acquisition

4 The Bilingual Child
5 Bilingualism/Multilinghualism and Second Language Acquisition
6 Multilingualism: New Perspectives on Syntactic Development
7 Bilingualism and the Heritage Language Learner

Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Production

8 Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon
9 The Comprehension of Words and Sentences in Two Languages

10 An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals

Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Memory, Cognition, and Emotion

11 Bilingual Memory
12 Bilingualism and Emotion: Implications for Mental Health

The Bilingual’s and Multilingual’s Repertoire: Code Mixing, Code Switching, and Communication Accommodation

13 Code Switching and Grammatical Theory
14 Sign Language-Spoken Language Bilingualism and the Derivation of Bimodally Mixed Sentences
15 Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing
16 Accommodating Multilinguality
17 Bilingualism and Gesture

Part III Societal Bilingualism/Multilingualism and its Effects
Introduction

Language Contact, Maintenance, and Endangerment

18 The Bilingual and Multilingual Community
19 Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Reversing Language Shift
20 Language Imperialism and Endangered Languages
21 Multilingualism, Indigenization, and Creolization
22 Multilingualism and Family Welfare

Bilingualism and Multilingualism: the Media, Education, Literacy, and the Law

23 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the Global Media and Advertising
24 Bilingual Education
25 The Impact of Bilingualism on Language and Literacy Development
26 Bilingualism and Writing Systems
27 Multilingualism and Forensic Linguistics

Part IV Global Perspectives and Challenges: Case studies
Introduction

28 Bilingualism in North America
29 Bilingualism in Latin America
30 Bilingualism in Europe
31 Turkish as an Immigrant Language in Europe
32 Multilingualism in Southern Africa
33 Multilingualism in Greater China and the Chinese Language Diaspora
34 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in South Asia
35 Multilingualism and Language Renewal in Ex-Soviet Central Asia
36 Bilingualism/Multilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa: A Focus on Cross-National and Diglossic Bilingualism/Multilingualism

Circa l’autore

Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, USA. He is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Citation Award for excellence in research. Publications include The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with William C.Ritchie, 2009), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India (2nd Edition, 2007), Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners (2nd Edition, 2007(, and Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (2000).

William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University, USA. 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).