The Author: Brigitte E. Lambert works with the Research Unit for Multiculturalism and Cross-Cultural Communication at the University of Melbourne, where she also completed her Ph.D. She was awarded the 2007 Michael Clyne Prize for the best thesis with a focus on an aspect of immigrant bilingualism and language contact by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia and the Australian Linguistics Society. Her research interests are centred on multilingual and multicultural issues.

• Contents: Family language transmission – Family language planning – Motivation – German – Language maintenance and shift – Bilingualism – Identity – Functional pragmatic theory.

The Author: Brigitte E. Lambert works with the Research Unit for Multiculturalism and Cross-Cultural Communication at the University of Melbourne, where she also completed her Ph.D. She was awarded the 2007 Michael Clyne Prize for the best thesis with a focus on an aspect of immigrant bilingualism and language contact by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia and the Australian Linguistics Society. Her research interests are centred on multilingual and multicultural issues.

• Contents: Family language transmission – Family language planning – Motivation – German – Language maintenance and shift – Bilingualism – Identity – Functional pragmatic theory.

The Author: Brigitte E. Lambert works with the Research Unit for Multiculturalism and Cross-Cultural Communication at the University of Melbourne, where she also completed her Ph.D. She was awarded the 2007 Michael Clyne Prize for the best thesis with a focus on an aspect of immigrant bilingualism and language contact by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia and the Australian Linguistics Society. Her research interests are centred on multilingual and multicultural issues.

• Contents: Family language transmission – Family language planning – Motivation – German – Language maintenance and shift – Bilingualism – Identity – Functional pragmatic theory.