Language Contact And Bilingualism

Author : René Appel,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053568576

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Language Contact and Bilingualism by René Appel,Pieter Muysken Pdf

What happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life, the approach to the study of language has usually been that monolingualism is the norm. The recent interest in bilingualism and language contact has led to a number of new approaches, based on research in communities in many different parts of the world. This book draws together this diverse research, looking at examples from many different situations, to present the topic in any easily accessible form. Language contact is looked at from four distinct perspectives. The authors consider bilingual societies; bilingual speakers; language use in the bilingual community; finally language itself (do languages change when in contact with each other? Can they borrow rules of grammar, or just words? How can new languages emerge from language contact?). The result is a clear, concise synthesis offering a much-needed overview of this lively area of language study.

Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139480529

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Language Contact by Yaron Matras Pdf

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.

Author : James Noel Adams,Mark Janse,Simon Swain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199245061

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Bilingualism in Ancient Society by James Noel Adams,Mark Janse,Simon Swain Pdf

Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802177

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Languages in Contact by Uriel Weinreich Pdf

“This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it has not been replaced by any later general treatment.” Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics

Author : Evangelia Adamou,Barbara E. Bullock,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000903249

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Understanding Language Contact by Evangelia Adamou,Barbara E. Bullock,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Pdf

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different interactional networks and timeframes, and the historical outcomes of contact-induced language change, this book: Discusses both how these areas relate to one another and how they correspond to different theoretical fields and methodologies; Draws together concepts and methodological/theoretical advances from the related fields of bilingualism and sociolinguistics to show how these can shed new light on the traditional field of contact linguistics; Presents up-to-date research in a digestible form; Includes examples from a wide range of contact languages, including Creoles and pidgins; Indigenous, minority, and heritage languages; mixed languages; and immigrants' linguistic practices, to illustrate ideas and concepts; Features exercises to test students’ understanding as well as suggestions for further reading to expand knowledge in specific areas. Written by three experienced teachers and researchers in this area, Understanding Language Contact is key reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching bilingualism and language contact for the first time.

Author : Rena Torres Cacoullos,Catherine E. Travis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108415828

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Bilingualism in the Community by Rena Torres Cacoullos,Catherine E. Travis Pdf

Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

Author : Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521786487

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Dynamics of Language Contact by Michael G. Clyne Pdf

Discusses disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context.

Author : Rene? Appel,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : OCLC:1369197426

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Language Contact and Bilingualism by Rene? Appel,Pieter Muysken Pdf

What happens - sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically - when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life, the approach to the study of language has usually been that monolingualism is the norm. The recent interest in bilingualism and language contact has led to a number of new approaches, based on research in communities in many different parts of the world. This book draws together this diverse research, looking at examples from many different situations, to present the topic in any easily accessible form.

Author : Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514886

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Boundaries and Bridges by Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken Pdf

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

Author : Peter Bakker,Yaron Matras
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614513711

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Contact Languages by Peter Bakker,Yaron Matras Pdf

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

Author : Annick De Houwer,Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316631222

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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism by Annick De Houwer,Lourdes Ortega Pdf

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.

Author : Carolina Plaza-Pust
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504990

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Bilingualism and Deafness by Carolina Plaza-Pust Pdf

This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of parent-to-child transmission. The evolution of sign bilingualism at the individual level is discussed from a developmental linguistics perspective on the basis of a longitudinal investigation of deaf learners' bilingual acquisition of German sign language (DGS) and German. The case studies included in this volume offer unique insights into bilingual deaf learners’ sign language and written language productions, and the sophisticated nature of the bilingual competence they attain. Commonalities and differences between sign bilingual language development in deaf learners and language development in other language acquisition scenarios are identified on the basis of a dynamic model of change in the evolution of (learner) language, with a focus on the role of language contact in the organisation of multilingual knowledge and the scope of inter- and intra-individual variation in learner grammars. In many respects, as becomes apparent throughout the chapters of this work, sign bilingualism represents not only a challenge but also a resource. Given this cross-disciplinary perspective, the insights on bilingualism and deafness in this volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and professionals.

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211873

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Languages in Contact by Uriel Weinreich Pdf

Based on the author's fieldwork, this title contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubunden)

Author : Peter H. Nelde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UCAL:B3918867

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It's Easy to Mingle when You are Bilingual by Peter H. Nelde Pdf

Author : Peter Siemund,Noemi Kintana
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219275

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Language Contact and Contact Languages by Peter Siemund,Noemi Kintana Pdf

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening our understanding of contact-induced language change. With its broad approach, this work will be welcomed by scholars of many different persuasions.