Bilingualism: Basic Principles (Multilingual Matters)

Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo

ISBN 10: 090502804X / ISBN 13: 9780905028040

Published by Tieto Ltd., Clevedon, Avon, United Kingdom, 1982

About this Item

Softcover with some superficial scores on front cover and creases on rear cover. Page block is slightly grubby. Name of previous owner (linguistics professor) on inside front cover; pencil marks, underlining and marginalia throughout text; upper leading corners of last pages are slightly creased. Binding is sound. T.

Seller Inventory # 272429

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bilingualism: Basic Principles (Multilingual Matters)
• Publisher: Tieto Ltd., Clevedon, Avon, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090502804X
• ISBN 13: 9780905028040
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language & Communication

About this title

Synopsis

Ever more people are being confronted with the question of bilingualism and the different opinions and varying advice offered by both laymen and specialists have often led to confusion and apparent contradictions. Bilingualism: Basic Principles is designed to provide a clear introductory guide to the fascinating queries that arise in connection with what is involved in knowing more than one language and the effect this has on the personality. The book underlines the normality of speaking and using more than one language in everyday life and dispels of the myths and fears propagated too often by people who know only one language. Drawing on his own experience as a bilingual and considerable research in different types of bilingual environments, Professor Baetens Beards-more provides a readable text which should be of interest not only to the specialist in languages but also to parents, educators and policy makers involved in trying to understand the effects on human behaviour of knowing more than one language.