ABSTRACT
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and ageing, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza’s pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals’, families’, and communities’ lives. Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as a lived reality for individuals, families, and communities.
This ground-breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Bilingual Acquisition
chapter 1|20 pages
Child Language Assessment across Different Multilingual Contexts
chapter 2|25 pages
Developmental Perspectives on Parents' Use of Discourse Strategies with Bilingual Children
part II|64 pages
Language Practices and Policies in the Family
chapter 4|21 pages
Language Development, Discourse, and Politics
chapter 5|20 pages
Family Time(s)
chapter 6|21 pages
From “Civilising Missions” to Indigenous Language Reclamation
part III|86 pages
Bilingual Ageing
chapter 7|22 pages
Where Have All My Languages Gone? Aging and the Changing Multilingual Linguistic Ecology
chapter 10|22 pages
Pathological Language-Switching/Mixing and Its Relationship to Domain-General Cognitive Control
part IV|16 pages
Concluding Remarks