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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:39:58
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism: Montanari, Quay (eds.)

 


Title: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism 
Subtitle: The Fundamentals 
Series Title: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2Cz9iN6 


Editor: Simona Montanari
Editor: Suzanne Quay

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501516504 Pages: 422 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Multilingualism is a typical aspect of everyday life for most of the world’s
population; it has existed since the beginning of humanity and among
individuals of all backgrounds. Nonetheless, it has often been treated as a
variant of bilingualism or as a phenomenon unique to individual areas of
study. The purpose of this book is to review current knowledge about the
acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages using a multidisciplinary
perspective, highlighting the common themes and stimulating insights that can
emerge when multilingualism is viewed from different but related areas of
investigation. The chapters focus on research evidence, showing that
multilingualism is a complex phenomenon that involves a myriad of linguistic
and extra-linguistic forces and that should be studied in its own right as
evidence of human potential and capacity for language. The book is primarily
addressed to students and scholars interested in deepening their understanding
of the different facets of multilingualism, including the individual and
societal circumstances that contribute to it, the cognitive and neural
mechanisms that make it possible, and the dynamics involved in the
acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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