Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication

of: Peter Auer, Li Wei

De Gruyter Mouton, 2007

ISBN: 9783110198553 , 606 Pages

Format: PDF, Read online

Copy protection: DRM

Frontmatter: 1
Contents: 19
Introduction: Multilingualism as a problem? Monolingualism as a problem?: 21
1. Early bilingual and multilingual acquisition: 35
2. Multilingualism and the family: 65
3. Growing up in a multilingual community: Insights from language socialization: 89
4. Becoming bi- or multi-lingual later in life: 121
5. Becoming bilingual through bilingual education: 151
6. Bilingual children in monolingual schools: 175
7. From minority programmes to multilingual education: 195
8. From biliteracy to pluriliteracies: 227
9. Multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (SLI): 249
10. Measuring bilingualism: 267
11. Code-switching as a conversational strategy: 299
12. Mixed codes: 335
13. Multilingual forms of talk and identity work: 361
14. Crossing – negotiating social boundaries: 391
15. Bilingual professionals: 411
16. Multilingualism in the workplace: 425
17. Multilingualism and commerce: 443
18. Societal multilingualism: reality, recognition and response: 467
19. Multilingualism of autochthonous minorities: 489
20. Multilingualism of new minorities (in migratory contexts): 513
21. Multilingualism in ex-colonial countries: 529
22. Multilingualism and transnationalism: 559
Backmatter: 575

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