Language Contact And Bilingualism
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| Author | : René Appel |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9053568573 |
What happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life, the approach to the study of language has usually been that monolingualism is the norm. The recent interest in bilingualism and language contact has led to a number of new approaches, based on research in communities in many different parts of the world. This book draws together this diverse research, looking at examples from many different situations, to present the topic in any easily accessible form. Language contact is looked at from four distinct perspectives. The authors consider bilingual societies; bilingual speakers; language use in the bilingual community; finally language itself (do languages change when in contact with each other? Can they borrow rules of grammar, or just words? How can new languages emerge from language contact?). The result is a clear, concise synthesis offering a much-needed overview of this lively area of language study.
| Author | : Annick De Houwer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2018-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781107179219 |
The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.
| Author | : Yaron Matras |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139480529 |
Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
| Author | : Rena Torres Cacoullos |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2018-03-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108415822 |
Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
| Author | : James Noel Adams |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199245062 |
Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.
| Author | : Peter Bakker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2013-06-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1614513716 |
This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.
| Author | : Peter Siemund |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027219273 |
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening our understanding of contact-induced language change. With its broad approach, this work will be welcomed by scholars of many different persuasions.
| Author | : Peter K. Austin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 113950083X |
It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.
| Author | : John H. McWhorter |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1934078379 |
This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.
| Author | : Mark Leikin |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2011-11-22 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 940072327X |
As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political language, and tongues such as Russian and Amharic spoken by immigrants. Presenting research on bi- and trilingualism in Israel from a multitude of perspectives, the book focuses on four aspects of multilingualism and literacy in Israel: Arabic-Hebrew bilingual education and Arabic literacy development; second-language Hebrew literacy among immigrant children; literacy in English as a second/third language; and adult bilingualism. Chapters dissect findings on immigrant youth education, language impairment in bilinguals, and neurocognitive features of bilingual language processing. Reflecting current trends, this volume integrates linguistics, sociology, education, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
