An Introduction to Bilingualism
Published on 9. September 1991
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-582-07920-5 (ISBN)
Description
It is the policy of the "Longman Linguistics Library" series to cover all aspects of linguistics, descriptive and historical, theoretical and methodological. Some of its books serve as introductions to key aspects of the subject, others are more specialized. In all cases the books are self-contained: they are intended to treat important areas in general linguistics and to be of value for a number of years. "An Introduction to Bilingualism" aims to provide a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and includes three detailed case studies. All specialist concepts and technical terms have been defined and it contains a variety of linuistic illustrations; mentions many languages; and has a distinct European orientation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-07920-5 (9780582079205)
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Charlotte Hoffmann
Introduction to Bilingualism
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09/1991
1st Edition
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Content
Part 1 Psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism: individual bilingualism - societal and individual bilingualism, describing bilingualism, semilingualism; the study of bilingual children - early and late bilingualism, how does the child become bilingual?, types of bilinguals; patterns of bilingual language acquisition - the description of bilingual language acquisition, phonological development, semantic and lexical development; aspects of bilingual competence - the bilingual's linguistic competence, early bilingualism - one language or two?, the unitary language system hypothesis; features of bilingual speech - interference, borrowing, individual creations; cognitive and educational aspects of bilingualism - contradictory research findings, bilingualism and cognitive functioning, overview of research on bilingualism and cognitive functioning; socio-cultural aspects of bilingualism - issues raised in the discussion of bilingualism, views of bilingualism, psychological aspects. Part 2 Sociolinguistic aspect of bilingualism: societal multilingualism - multilingualism in society, factors contributing towards societal multilingualism, historical factors; language choice, language maintenance and language shift - language choice, domain analysis - person, place and topic, the socio-psychological approach - linguistic accommodation; language and national identity - language and nationalism, basic concepts, language and nationalism; linguistic minorities - indigenous minorities in Western Europe, two main types of indigenous linguistic minorities, ethnic, regional, national and minority languages; case studies 1 the Alsations - the language, historical overview, the use of Alsatian; case studies 2 the Catalans - Catalonia and the Catalans, geographical and demographic overview, the Catalan language; case studies 3 migrant workers in the federal republic of Germany; old and new minorities, indigenous minorities, refugees and returning German minorities.