Language Contact and Bilingualism /

Language Contact and Bilingualism / / Pieter C. Muysken, Rene Appel.

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 wo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Appel, Rene,
Muysken, Pieter C.,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam Academic Archive
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: Bilingualism and language contact
  • I Social aspects of the bilingual community
  • 2 Language and identity
  • 3 The sociology of language choke
  • 4 Language maintenance and shift
  • 5 Language planning
  • 6 Bilingual education
  • II The bilingual speaker
  • 7 Psychological dimensions of bilingualism
  • 8 Second-language acquisition
  • 9 The effects of bilingualism
  • III Language use in the bilingual community
  • 10 Code switching and code mixing
  • 11 Strategies of neutrality
  • 12 Strategies and problems in bilingual interaction
  • IV Linguistic consequences
  • 13 Language contact and language change
  • 14 Lexical borrowing
  • 15 Pidgins and creoles
  • References
  • Index to languages and countries
  • Subject index
  • Author index

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