Extensive revision of: The handbook of bilingualism. 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bilingualism and multilingualism : some central concepts / John Edwards -- Conceptual and methodological issues in bilingualism and multilingualism research / Li Wei -- Bilingual aphasia : theoretical and clinical considerations / Elizabeth Ijalba, Loraine K. Obler, and Shyamala Chengappa -- The bilingual child / Ludovica Serratrice -- Bilingualism/multilingualism and second language acquisition / Yuko Goto Butler -- Multilingualism : new perspectives on syntactic development / Éva Berkes and Suzanne Flynn -- Bilingualism and the heritage language learner / Silvina Montrul -- Two linguistic systems in contact : grammar, phonology, and lexicon / Pieter Muysken -- The comprehension of words and sentences in two languages / Judith F. Kroll and Paola E. Dussias -- An appraisal of the bilingual language production system : quantitatively or qualitatively different from monolinguals / Elin Runnqvist, Ian Fitzpatrick, Kristof Strijkers, and Albert Costa -- Bilingual memory / Roberto R. Heredia and Jeffrey M. Brown -- Bilingualism and emotion : implications for mental health / Ines Martinovic and Jeanette Altarriba -- Code switching and grammatical theory / Jeff Macswan -- Sign language-spoken language bilingualism and the derivation of bimodally mixed sentences / Gerald P. Berent -- Social and psychological factors in language mixing / William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia -- Accommodating multilinguality / Itesh Sachdev, Howard Giles, and Jane Pauwels -- Bilingualism and gesture / Marianne Gullberg -- The bilingual and multilingual community / Suzanne Romaine -- Language maintenance, language shift, and reversing language shift / Joshua A. Fishman -- Language imperialism and endangered languages / Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Multilingualism, indigenization, and creolization / Jeff Siegel -- Multilingualism and family welfare / Xiao-Lei Wang -- Bilingualism and multilingualism in the global media and advertising / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Bilingual education / Wayne Wright -- The impact of bilingualism on language and literacy development / Ellen Bialystok -- Bilingualism and writing systems / Benedetta Bassetti -- Multilingualism and forensic linguistics / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Bilingualism and multilingualism in North America / William F. Mackey -- Bilingualism in Latin America / Anna María Escobar -- Bilingualism in Europe / Andrée Tabouret-Keller -- Turkish as an immigrant language in Europe / Ad Backus -- Multilingualism in southern Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- Multilingualism in greater China and the Chinese language diaspora / Sherman Lee and David C.S. Li -- Bilingualism and multilingualism in South Asia / Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie -- Multilingualism and language renewal in ex-Soviet Central Asia / Birgit N. Schlyter -- Bilingualism/multilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa : a focus on cross-national and diglossic bilingualism/multilingualism / Judith Rosenhouse.