Introduction to Bilingualism

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
PART I: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM
1. Individual bilingualism
2. The study of bilingual children
3. Patterns of bilingual language acquisition
4. Aspects of bilingual competence
5. Features of bilingual speech
6. Cognitive and educational aspects of bilingualism
7. Sociocultural aspects of bilingualism
PART II: SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECT OF BILINGUALISM
8. Societal multilingualism
9. Language choice, language maintenance and language shift
10. Language and national identity
11. Linguistic minorities
12. Case Study I: The Alsatians
13. Case Study II: The Catalans
14. Case Study III: Migrant workers in the Federal Republic of Germany
Appendix
References
Subject Index
Index of places, languages and people
Author Index
List of Maps

About the author

Charlotte Hoffmann

Summary

An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. The book is also concerned with multilingualism and includes several case studies of European linguistic minorities.

Product details

• Authors: HOFFMANN, Charlotte Hoffmann, Charlotte (University of Salford) Hoffmann
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138162006
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16200-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Longman Linguistics Library; Longman Linguistics Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, Education, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism