Handbook of Bilingualism 2e - Paperback

by Tej K. Bhatia (Editor), William C. Ritchie (Editor)

**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**

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

Back Jacket

"This impressive, greatly expanded and authoritative collection of established and emerging research topics in bi- and multilingualism challenges a monolingualist mindset that has dominated thinking about language, mind, and nation-state." Jyotsna Vaid, Texas A&M University

As people across the world become increasingly mobile, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on growing importance from both scholarly and practical points of view. The international circumstances that have developed over the last two decades - in which linguistic and ethnic communities that had previously been politically submerged have asserted themselves - have provided scholars with new opportunities to study the phenomena of individual and societal bilingualism and multilingualism. This timely reference volume explores these questions, discussing the meaning and influence of the phenomena and conceptualization of "hyperglobalization" in the field, and assessing the latest developments in worldwide linguistics, with particular emphasis on geographical centers of global conflict and commerce.

The first edition of The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, which provided state-of-the-art overviews of the central issues of bilingualism, represented a new integration of interdisciplinary research by a team of internationally-renowned scholars. The second edition now benefits from seven new chapters on topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning, and the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team. All of the chapters have been revised and in some cases rewritten to provide more extensive overviews of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology, endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics. The result is a single-volume Handbook that will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students in linguistics, education, anthropology, and global studies.

Author Biography

Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, USA. He is a recipient of the Chancellor's Citation Award for excellence in research. Publications include The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with William C. Ritchie, 2009), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India (2^nd Edition, 2007), Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners (2^nd Edition, 2007(, and Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (2000).

William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University, USA. His publications include an edited volume entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Issues and Implications (1978). He has co-edited four handbooks with Tej K. Bhatia, including Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (1999).