Carol Myers-Scotton

Multiple Voices

An Introduction to Bilingualism

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Produktbeschreibung

Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive overview of all major aspects of bilingualism. It is primarily concerned with bilingualism as a socio-political phenomenon in the world and, as such, emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy (including educational policies), and language as a social identity marker. Other topics discussed include the grammatical or cognitive aspects of bilingualism, such as codeswitching and convergence, how bilingualism appears to be organized in the brain, and how child bilingualism differs from bilingualism acquired at a later age. Designed for upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate students, this textbook includes many detailed examples from all over the world and is written accessibly by a prominent bilingualism researcher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 808g
• ISBN-13: 9780631219378
• ISBN-10: 0631219374
• Artikelnr.: 21362446

Autorenporträt

Carol Myers-Scotton is Carolina Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Linguistics Program and Department of English at the University of South Carolina. Her numerous publications include Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (2002) and Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

2. What's a Language? What's a Dialect? What"Social Work" do they do?.

3. Who is a Bilingual? What Factors Promote Bilingualism?.

4. Language Maintenance and Shift.

5. Ideologies and Attitudes.

6. The Social Motivations for Language Use in InterpersonalInteractions.

7. Inter-Cultural Communication.

8. Lexical Borrowing.

9. What Happens to Grammars in Bilingual Contacts.

10. Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism.

11. Age of Acquisition and Success with a Second Language.

12. Language Policies and Globalization.

13. Conclusions.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"It's been hard to find a good textbook in bilingualism forundergraduate students in such diverse fields as psycholinguistics,sociolinguistics, and language policy; but Myers-Scotton, a leadingscholar in the area, has met the need. Topics covered includelanguage maintenance, language ideology, inter-culturalcommunication, lexical and grammatical borrowing, and languageglobalization. Numerous case studies from nations as far-flung asItaly, China, and Kenya, and from immigrant communities such asTurks in the Netherlands and Haitians in New York, make this a mostattractive volume."
William Bright, Editor Emeritus, Language in Society

"Multiple Voices accomplishes a rare feat - it isboth an accessible introduction to the study of bilingualism and acomprehensive treatment of research in the field. This is an idealtextbook for courses on language contact." Janet Fuller,Southern Illinois University

"This introduction is not a simple synthesis of research andtheory, but also a compendium of a lifetime of dedication tounderstanding bilingualism."
Multilingua