Language Contact and Bilingualism
Title | Language Contact and Bilingualism PDF eBook |
Author | René Appel |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
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.
Language Contact
Title | Language Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Yaron Matras |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
Contact Languages
Title | Contact Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bakker |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
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.
The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism
Title | The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism PDF eBook |
Author | Annick De Houwer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
Bilingualism in Ancient Society
Title | Bilingualism in Ancient Society PDF eBook |
Author | James Noel Adams |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
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.
Bilingualism in the Community
Title | Bilingualism in the Community PDF eBook |
Author | Rena Torres Cacoullos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
Language Contact and Contact Languages
Title | Language Contact and Contact Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Siemund |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
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.