Table of Contents

Contents - 8 Preface - 12 1. Introductions: Bilingualism and language contact - 14 Part I: Social aspects of the bilingual community - 24 2. Language and identity - 24 3. The sociology of language choice - 35 4. Language maintenance and shift - 45 5. Language planning - 59 6. Bilingual education - 72 Part II: The bilingual speaker - 86 7. Psychological dimensions of bilingualism - 86 8. Second-language acquisition - 95 9. The effects of bilingualism - 114 Part III: Language use in the bilingual community - 130 10. Code switching and code mixing - 130 11. Strategies of neutrality - 142 12. Strategies and problems in bilingual interaction - 151 Part IV: Linguistic consequences - 166 13. Language contact and language change - 166 14. Lexical borrowing - 177 15. Pidgins and creoles - 188 References - 200 Index to languages and countries - 214 Subject index - 219 Author index - 223

About the Author

At the time of writing Rene Appel and Pieter Muysken were both senior faculty members in the Institute of General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Currently, Rene Appel is established as an independent author (mostly of well-received psychological thrillers); he has widely published on second language acquisition and the language education of immigrant children. Pieter Muysken is now professor of linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, and publishes in the area of code-switching, creoles, and language contact in South America.

Reviews

“This book is extremely well written and commendable in all respects.” M. Aggarwal in Times Higher Education Supplement.