Multiple Voices

"Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism" provides a comprehensive overview of all major features of bilingualism, including grammatical, cognitive, and social aspects. It examines bilingualism as a socio-political phenomenon and emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy, and bilingual education. It includes many detailed examples from all over the world written accessibly for students with little or no background in linguistics by a prominent bilingualism researcher.