Multilingualism across the Lifespan (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036764682X ISBN 13: 9780367646820

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and ageing, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza’s pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals’, families’, and communities’ lives. Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as a lived reality for individuals, families, and communities.

This ground-breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.

About this title

About the Author

Unn Røyneland is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Robert Blackwood is Professor of French Sociolinguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036764682X
• ISBN 13: 9780367646820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Røyneland Unn, Blackwood Robert