ABSTRACT
Chapter 11 explores contemporary language contact settings and invites us to ask: What can we observe about language contact in minority language and immigrant communities? This chapter investigates the practices of individuals who are in the linguistic minority, those who use a language in their networks of family, friends, and neighbors that is different from the language spoken by the socially dominant population around them. It presents the social and psychological factors that lead to language maintenance or language shift in the types of bilingual populations under consideration. And, finally, this chapter examines the effects of language contact and restricted usage on the minority language.
