ABSTRACT
The papers collected in this Reader represent a diversity of approaches to various aspects of bilingualism. I have deliberately excluded work on language planning, language attitude and bilingual education, as there are already good collections of papers on these topics (e.g. Garcia and Baker, 1995; Coupland and Jaworski, 1997; Trudgill and Cheshire, 1997). Consequently, most of the papers included in this Reader focus on the language behaviour of bilingual speakers. I have tried to highlight the various theoretical stances of the papers in my sectional introductions. The differences in theoretical stances often lead to the use of different methods in data collection and data analysis. In this final chapter of the Reader, I discuss some of the methodological issues in the study of bilingualism.
