Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Multilingualism as a problem? Monolingualism as a problem?
• I. Becoming bilingual
  • 1. Early bilingual and multilingual acquisition
  • 2. Multilingualism and the family
  • 3. Growing up in a multilingual community: Insights from language socialization
  • 4. Becoming bi- or multi-lingual later in life
  • 5. Becoming bilingual through bilingual education
• II. Staying bilingual
  • 6. Bilingual children in monolingual schools
  • 7. From minority programmes to multilingual education
  • 8. From biliteracy to pluriliteracies
  • 9. Multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
  • 10. Measuring bilingualism
• III. Acting multilingual
  • 11. Code-switching as a conversational strategy
  • 12. Mixed codes
  • 13. Multilingual forms of talk and identity work
  • 14. Crossing – negotiating social boundaries
  • 15. Bilingual professionals
  • 16. Multilingualism in the workplace
  • 17. Multilingualism and commerce
• IV. Living in a multilingual society
  • 18. Societal multilingualism: reality, recognition and response
  • 19. Multilingualism of autochthonous minorities
  • 20. Multilingualism of new minorities (in migratory contexts)
  • 21. Multilingualism in ex-colonial countries
  • 22. Multilingualism and transnationalism
• Backmatter