Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction - Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie
• Part I Overview and Foundations
• Introduction - Tej K. Bhatia
• 1 Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts - John Edwards
• 2 Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research - Li Wei
• Part II Neurological and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualismand Multilingualism
• Introduction - William C. Ritchie
• The Neurology of Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• 3 Bilingual Aphasia: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations - Elizabeth Ijalba, Loraine K. Obler, and Shyamala Chengappa
• Approaches to Bilingualism, Multilingualism, and Second-Language Acquisition
• 4 The Bilingual Child - Ludovica Serratrice
• 5 Bilingualism/Multilingualism and Second-Language Acquisition - Yuko Goto Butler
• 6 Multilingualism: New Perspectives on Syntactic Development - Éva Berkes and Suzanne Flynn
• 7 Bilingualism and the Heritage Language Speaker - Silvina Montrul
• Bilingual and Multilingual Language Use: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Production
• 8 Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon - Pieter Muysken
• 9 The Comprehension of Words and Sentences in Two Languages - Judith F. Kroll and Paola E. Dussias
• 10 An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals? - Elin Runnqvist, Ian FitzPatrick, Kristof Strijkers, and Albert Costa
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Memory, Cognition, and Emotion
• 11 Bilingual Memory - Roberto R. Heredia and Jeffrey M. Brown
• 12 Bilingualism and Emotion: Implications for Mental Health - Ines Martinovic and Jeanette Altarriba
• The Bilingual's and Multilingual's Repertoire: Code-Mixing, Code-Switching, and Communication Accommodation
• 13 Code-Switching and Grammatical Theory - Jeff MacSwan
• 14 Sign Language—Spoken Language Bilingualism and the Derivation of Bimodally Mixed Sentences - Gerald P. Berent
• 15 Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing - William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia
• 16 Accommodating Multilinguality - Itesh Sachdev, Howard Giles, and Anne Pauwels
• 17 Bilingualism and Gesture - Marianne Gullberg
• Part III Societal Bilingualism/Multilingualism and its Effects
• Introduction - Tej K. Bhatia
• Language Contact, Maintenance, and Endangerment
• 18 The Bilingual and Multilingual Community - Suzanne Romaine
• 19 Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Reversing Language Shift - Joshua A. Fishman
• 20 Linguistic Imperialism and Endangered Languages - Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
• 21 Multilingualism, Indigenization, and Creolization - Jeff Siegel
• 22 Multilingualism and Family Welfare - Xiao-Lei Wang
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism: The Media, Education, Literacy, and the Law
• 23 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the Global Media and Advertising - Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie
• 24 Bilingual Education - Wayne E. Wright
• 25 The Impact of Bilingualism on Language and Literacy Development - Ellen Bialystok
• 26 Bilingualism and Writing Systems - Benedetta Bassetti
• 27 Multilingualism and Forensic Linguistics - Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie
• Part IV Global Perspectives and Challenges: Case Studies
• Introduction - William C. Ritchie
• 28 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in North America - William F. Mackey
• 29 Bilingualism in Latin America - Anna María Escobar
• 30 Bilingualism in Europe - Andrée Tabouret-Keller
• 31 Turkish as an Immigrant Language in Europe - Ad Backus
• 32 Multilingualism in Southern Africa - Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
• 33 Multilingualism in Greater China and the Chinese Language Diaspora - Sherman Lee and David C. S. Li
• 34 Bilingualism and Multilingualism in South Asia - Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie
• 35 Multilingualism and Language Renewal in Ex-Soviet Central Asia - Birgit N. Schlyter
• 36 Bilingualism/Multilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa: A Focus on Cross-National and Diglossic Bilingualism/Multilingualism - Judith Rosenhouse