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Informationen zum Autor Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the Chancellor's Citation Award for excellence in research. He has published a number of books, articles and book chapters in the areas of bilingualism, multiculturalism, media discourse, socio- and psycho-linguistics, and the structure and typology of English and South Asian languages. Publications include Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (2000), Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition (2007), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India, 2nd Edition (2007), and The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with William C. Ritchie, 2009). William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses in general linguistics and second-language acquisition. 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). Klappentext 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 "Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." ("Choice, "1 August 2013) Zusammenfassung **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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Linguis...
