An Advanced Guide to Multilingualism /
Larissa Aronin.
- xiv, 233 p : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and Languages and Subject indexes.
CONTENTS List of Figures Foreword / Muiris O Laoire Introduction: How do we approach multilingualism? Part I: The field of multilingualism 1. What is multilingualism? 1.1 What is multilingualism about? 1.1.1 Definitions of multilingualism 1.1.2 Are bilingualism and multilingualism the same or different? 1.2 Individual multilingualism and societal multilingualism 1.2.1 Individual multilingualism 1.2.2 Societal multilingualism 1.3 Historical multilingualism and current multilingualism 1.4 How many languages and speakers are there in the world? 1.5 The purview of multilingualism Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 2. Multilingualism as an exceptional resource 2.1 Resources of multilingualism 2.2 How unique are human language and the ability for multilingualism ? 2.2.1 Pavlov's second and first signal systems 2.2.2 Animal communication: can animals be multilingual? Is using more than one communicative system humans' exclusive characteristic? 2.3 Human language 2.3.1 Language universals 2.3.2 Language features in different languages Writing systems and scripts Numerals Basic colour terms Time and space terms 2.3.3 Linguistic relativity / linguistic determinism hypothesis Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 3. Multilingualism as modern reality and field of knowledge 3.1 Social awareness in languages 3.1.1 Paradigms and stages 3.1.2 The monolingual stage 3.1.3 The bilingual stage 3.1.4 The multilingual stage 3.2 The New Linguistic Dispensation Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions, exercises Part II: Languages 4. Languages of the world 4.1 Languages and dialects 4.1.1 What is a language? 4.1.2 What is a dialect? 4.1.3 Dialect continuum 4.2 Language standardisation 4.2.1 Standardisation and codification 4.2.2 Pluricentric languages 4.3 Linguistic distance 4.4 Kachru's Circles and the World Englishes 4.4.1 Performance varieties 4.5 Language varieties resulting from language contact 4.5.1 Pidgins and creoles 4.5.2 Bilingual mixed languages Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 5. Classification of languages 5.1 Linguistic classifications of languages 5.1.1 Word order typology 5.1.2 Linguistic structural typology 5.1.3 Genetic classification of languages 5.2.1 The galactic model (de Swaan) 5.2.2 Economic-related hierarchies 5.3 Distinct categories of languages 5.3.1 Lingua franca - English as a lingua franca (ELF) 5.3.2 Sign languages 5.3.3 Artificial (constructed) languages Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises Part III: Multilingualism in society 6. Multilingualism at the societal level: basic concepts 6.1 Language contact 6.1.1 Borrowing 6.1.2 Sprachbund 6.2 Speech community 6.3 Diglossia 6.4 Domain Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 7. Societal multilingualism: multilingual countries and regions 7.1 How do countries become multilingual? 7.2 Roles and status of languages in multilingual countries and organisations 7.3 Diversity of multilingualism 7.3.1 Measures of linguistic diversity 7.3.2 How multilingual countries differ from each other Correlation of individual and societal multilingualism in multilingual countries Proximate and integrative multilingualism Challenges and issues 7.3.3 Multilingual regions and countries: Africa and India Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises Part IV: Individual multilingualism 8. Individual multilingualism: psycholinguistic and cognitive dimensions 8.1 Who are the multilinguals? 8.2 Special features and language behaviour of multilinguals 8.2.1 Complexity and emergent qualities 8.2.2 Features of linguistic and learning behaviour 8.2.3 Extent of language skills used by multilinguals 8.2.4 Cross-linguistic interactions 8.2.5 Multilingual brains 8.3 Multilinguals in conditions of health and decline 8.3.1 Multilinguals throughout their lifespan Early and late multilinguals Age and additional language acquisition The impact of multilingualism in situations of healthy ageing and disease Cognitive reserve Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 9. Individual multilingualism: social dimensions 9.1 Multilinguality - the identity of a multilingual 9.1. Expansion of the identity concept Technological impact on multilingual identity Multimodal dimensions of multilingual identity 9.1.2 Multilinguality 9.2 Trajectories of becoming multilingual 9.2.1 Simultaneous and successive patterns of acquisition 9.2.2 Hoffmann's typology of trilinguals 9.2.3 Becoming or not becoming multilingual: challenges and choices of multilingual families 9.3 Various categories of multilinguals 9.3.1 Polyglots 9.3.2 Other exceptional multilinguals 'Savants' Deaf and hard-of-hearing language users Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises Part V: How we experience and study multilingualism 10. The ways we experience, treat and use languages 10.1 The way we treat languages - language nominations 10.1.1 What are language nominations? 10.1.2 How do language nominations emerge? 10.1.3 How expedient are language nominations? 10.2 The way we use multiple languages: language repertoire and Dominant Language Constellations 10.2.1 Language repertoires 10.2.2 Dominant Language Constellations (DLS is a unit; DLS maps, DLS is adaptable and dynamic; Languages of a DLC are not arranged in any built-in hierarchy; DLC is multimodal) 10.3 The way we experience languages 10.3.1 Translanguaging and code-switching What is translanguaging? What is code-switching? Code-switching or translanguaging? 10.3.2 Intercomprehension/receptive multilingualism 10.3.3 The material culture of multilingualism Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 11. Methods of studying multilingualism 11.1 Features of multilingualism research 11.1.1 Characteristics of research in multilingualism 11.1.2 Challenges 11.2 Research methodologies and types of research 11.2.1 Philosophies, methodologies, and types of research in multilingualism 11.2.2 Quantitative research - Language demography 11.2.3 Qualitative research - Ethnographic research 11.2.4 Holistic and complexity research - Complexity research; Complex interactions; Sensitivity to initial conditions; Emergence 11.2.5 Triangulation Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises 12. Models of multilingualism 12.1 What are theories and what are models? 12.1.1 Theories 12.1.2 Models 12.2 Models specific to multilingualism 12.2.1 Factor Model by Hufeisen 12.2.2 Dynamic Model by Herdina and Jessner 12.2.3 Biotic Model by Aronin and O Laoire 12.2.4 Role-Function Model by Williams and Hammarberg 12.2.5 Multilingual Processing Model by Meisner 12.3 Modelling in multilingualism 12.3.1 DLC modelling Summary Further reading, chapter review, reflective questions and exercises Conclusion: Reflecting on multilingualism
"Delivering facts and findings from a variety of multilingual settings, this textbook systematically covers the diverse dimensions of multilingualism. As well as explaining key concepts, it examines the foremost issues of individual and societal multilingualism. It discusses topics from indigenous and minority languages to World Englishes and translanguaging, and from cross-linguistic influence to multilingual identity and the impact of multilingualism on healthy aging and considers the models and research methods used to underpin these discussions. Each chapter is supported by a comprehensive review of relevant research to reveal fresh perspectives, offer discerning insights and pose challenging possibilities for future exploration." (Book Cover)
9780748635641
Multilingualism. Bilingualism. Language and languages.