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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876539303321

Titolo

The handbook of bilingualism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, USA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

9786610284689

1-280-28468-4

1-78034-230-6

0-470-75674-8

978140512900X

1-4051-6619-3

0-470-75699-3

1-4051-2900-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (904 p.)

Collana

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

BhatiaTej K

RitchieWilliam C

Disciplina

404/.2

Soggetti

Bilingualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Foundations of Bilingualism; 2 Studying Bilinguals Methodological and Conceptual Issues; 3 Bilingual Aphasia; 4 The Bilingual Child; 5 Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition; 6 Two Linguistic Systems in Contact Grammar Phonology and Lexicon; 7 The Comprehension of Words and Sentences in Two Languages; 8 Speech Production in Bilinguals; 9 Bilingual Memory; 10 Bilingualism Language Emotion and Mental Health; 11 Code Switching and Grammatical Theory

12 Sign Language Spoken Language Bilingualism Code Mixing and Mode Mixing by ASL English Bilinguals13 Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing; 14 Bilingual Accommodation; 15 The Bilingual and Multilingual Community; 16 Language Maintenance Language Shift and Reversing Language Shift; 17 Minority and Endangered Languages; 18 Multilingualism in Linguistic History



Creolization and Indigenization; 19 Bilingualism and Gender; 20 Bilingualism in the Global Media and Advertising; 21 What

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual's brain to the various forms of bilingual education.