Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism

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, and bilingual education. Topics discussed include the grammatical or cognitive aspects of bilingualism, such as codeswitching and convergence. Also included are chapters on what psycholinguistic studies tell us about how bilingualism seems to be organized in the brain as well as how child bilingualism differs from bilingualism acquired at a later age. Multiple Voices includes many detailed examples from all over the world and is written accessibly for students with little of no background in linguistics by a prominent bilingualism researcher.