| Description |
x, 758 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Individual Bilingualism -- Who is a Bilingual? -- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism -- Two Views of Bilinguals: Two Halves or One Whole? -- Balanced Bilinguals -- Double 'Semilingualism' -- Prestigious Bilingualism -- Multilingualism -- Personality, Social Development, Identity and Bilingualism -- Bilingualism and the Family -- Types of Bilingual Family -- The Development of Bilingualism in Children -- Bilingualism and Marriage -- Mother Tongue -- The Everyday Language Use of Bilinguals -- Language Choice -- Bilingualism and Sensitivity in Communication -- Codeswitching -- Bilingualism and Thinking -- Bilingualism and Intelligence -- Bilingualism and Creative Thinking -- Field Dependency and Independency and Bilingualism -- Piaget and Bilingualism -- Bilingualism and Metalinguistic Awareness -- Thresholds Theory -- Common Underlying Proficiency and Separate Underlying Proficiency -- Bilingualism and the Brain -- The Measurement of Bilingualism -- Measuring Bilinguals -- Bilingual Proficiency -- Languages in Society -- Bilingualism in Communities -- Language Communities -- Types of Language Minority -- Immigration, Emigration and Language -- Ethnic Identity -- Diglossia -- Languages of Wider Communication -- Language Change -- The Origins of Language and Language Families -- The Origins of Bilingualism -- Dialects and Language Boundaries -- Pidgins and Creoles -- Language Shift, Language Decline and Language Death -- Language Borrowings -- Language Vitality -- Attitudes to Languages |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 708-747) and indexes |
| Subject |
Bilingualism -- Encyclopedias.
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Education, Bilingual -- Encyclopedias.
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Education [MESH]
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Education.
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Multilingualism [MESH]
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Multilingualism.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Baker, Colin, 1949- editor
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Jones, Sylvia Prys, editor
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Multilingual Matters Ltd.
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| LC no. |
96024015 |
| ISBN |
1853593621 |
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9781853593628 |
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