Table of Contents
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 Éva 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 María Escobar
30 Bilingualism in Europe 745 Andrée 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