Language Contact and Bilingualism

Rene Appel; Pieter C. Muysken

doi:10.1017/9789048504138

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: bUingualism aod language contact
pp 1-10

I - Sodal aspects of tbe bilingual community

2 - Language aod identity
pp 11-21

3 - The sociology of language choice
pp 22-31

4 - Language maintenance and shift
pp 32-45

5 - Language planning
pp 46-58

6 - Bilingual education
pp 59-72

II - The bilingual speaker

7 - Psychological dimensions of bilingualism
pp 73-81

8 - Second-language acquisition
pp 82-100

9 - Tbe effects of bilingualism
pp 101-116

III - Language use in the bilingual community

10 - Code switching and code mixing
pp 117-128

11 - Strategies of neutrality
pp 129-137

12 - Strategies and problems in bilingual interaction
pp 138-152

IV - Linguistic consequences

13 - Language contact and language change
pp 153-163

14 - Lexical borrowing
pp 164-174

15 - Pidgins and creoles
pp 175-186

References
pp 187-200

Index to languages and countries
pp 201-205

Subject index
pp 206-209

Author index
pp 210-214

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 215-215

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