Advanced Guide to Multilingualism

Muiris O Laoire, Professor of Language Revitalisation Studies, University of Auckland.

In twelve well-designed and highly readable chapters, this up-to-date textbook by Larissa Aronin provides many insightful perspectives for research and practice in the study of societal and individual multilingualism. Interdisciplinary in nature, a must-read and invaluable resource for students and instructors in different disciplines wanting to engage into understanding and acting upon what it means to use and learn multiple languages in our world today.

• Foreword – Muiris Ó LaoireIntroduction: How do we approach multilingualism?Part One. The Field of MultilingualismChapter 1 What is multilingualism? Chapter 2. Multilingualism as an exceptional resource Chapter 3. Multilingualism as a modern reality and a field of knowledge Part Two. LanguagesChapter 4. Languages of the world Chapter 5 Classifications of languages Part Three. Multilingualism in SocietyChapter 6. Multilingualism at the societal level: basic concepts Chapter 7. Societal Multilingualism: Multilingual regions and countries Part Four. Individual MultilingualismChapter 8 Individual Multilingualism: psycholinguistic and cognitive dimensions Chapter 9 Individual Multilingualism: social dimensions Part Five. How Do We Experience and Study MultilingualismChapter 10. The ways we experience, treat and use languages Chapter 11. Methods of studying multilingualism Chapter 12. Models of multilingualism Conclusion: Reflecting on multilingualismLanguages Index; Subject Index; Bibliography