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The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism


Published: Dec. 1, 2012

Tej K. Bhatia (editor)

William C. Ritchie (editor)

Wiley-Blackwell

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

  • Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning
  • Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics
  • Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines
  • Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling
  • Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce

*Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

-with support from Working Group, LIN5: The Multilingual Mind