1. Bilingualism in the World The Extent of Bilingualism National Patterns of Bilingualism Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities The Origins of Bilingualism The Outcome of Bilingualism 2. Bilingualism in the United States Language Diversity and Bilingualism Aspects of the Life of Linguistic Minorities Bilingual Education Some Linguistic Minorities Language Maintenance and Language Shift 3. Bilingualism in Society Attitudes toward Language Groups and Languages Language Choice Code-Switching Bilingualism and Biculturalism 4. The Bilingual Child Becoming Bilingual The Acquisition of Two Languages Aspects of Bilingualism in the Child Education and the Bilingual Child The Effects of Bilingualism on the Child 5. The Bilingual Person Describing a Person's Bilingualism The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism The Bilingual Brain The Bilingual as a Person 6. Bilingual Speech and Language Speaking to a Monolingual Speaking to a Bilingual The Legacy of Bilingualism References Acknowledgments Index
Francois Grosjean has undertaken a truly formidable task--to give the serious student and the earnest layman some insight into what a generation of intense research has taught us about bilinguals and bilingualism. The book manages to combine a very personal touch, which one feels everywhere as growing out of the author's own experience as a bilingual, with wide reading in the many fields of research that bear on the problems of bilingualism. -- Einar Haugen, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University [Life with Two Languages] contains a wealth of interesting information which, to my knowledge, has not been put together in one source before--particularly in such a cogent and succinct manner...a thoroughly enjoyable treatment of the phenomenon of bilingualism. -- C. Richard Tucker, Director, Center for Applied Linguistics Grosjean has written a very comprehensive review of the field that is both conceptually sound and entertaining. The book will undoubtedly inform, perhaps provoke and...entertain its readers. -- Fred Genesee, McGill University
François Grosjean is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Neuchâtel.
The volume is written in a highly readable, enjoyable style. The
coverage is broad and quite comprehensive, with a wide range of
examples from different countries and cultures… The message
concerning what natural bilingual behavior is like for most
bilinguals comes through strongly and impressively. It is this then
which holds the book together and which makes it a unique
contribution among writings on bilingualism.
*Bilingual Review*
[This book] is virtually indispensable to anyone already interested
in language politics… [Grosjean] has assembled a great deal of
valuable and often intriguing data and organized it clearly.
*Chicago Reader*
What this book conveys is the incredible variety of ways in which
an individual or a nation can be bilingual… Grosjean’s book treats
the multiple facets of bilingual experience in thought-provoking,
wonderful, and lucid prose. Students and general readers,
monolingual and bilingual alike, stand to gain new perspectives
from reading this excellent comprehensive introduction.
*Contemporary Psychology*
Anyone interested in the distinctly personal aspects of
bilingualism will find it rewarding to dip into this survey; he is
bound to discover a good deal that has escaped his own
attempts.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Grosjean has written a very comprehensive review of the field that
is both conceptually sound and entertaining. The book will
undoubtedly inform, perhaps provoke and…entertain its readers.
*Fred Genesee, McGill University*
François Grosjean has undertaken a truly formidable task—to give
the serious student and the earnest layman some insight into what a
generation of intense research has taught us about bilinguals and
bilingualism. The book manages to combine a very personal touch,
which one feels everywhere as growing out of the author’s own
experience as a bilingual, with wide reading in the many fields of
research that bear on the problems of bilingualism.
*Einar Haugen, Professor of Scandinavian Language and Linguistics,
Emeritus, Harvard University*
[Life with Two Languages] contains a wealth of interesting
information which, to my knowledge, has not been put together in
one source before—particularly in such a cogent and succinct
manner…a thoroughly enjoyable treatment of the phenomenon of
bilingualism.
*C. Richard Tucker, Director, Center for Applied Linguistics*
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