The mysteries of bilingualism : unresolved issues / François Grosjean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosjean, François, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

vii, 164 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022.

Summary:

The majority of people living around the world today are able to speak more than one language, yet many aspects of the nature and experience of bilingualism raise unresolved questions for researchers. Who exactly is bilingual? What is the extent of bilingualism? How do infant bilinguals who acquire two languages at the same time manage to separate them? Does language processing work differently when bilinguals are interacting with monolinguals and with bilinguals? When a speaker changes their language, do they also change aspects of their personality? --

In The Mysteries of Bilingualism: Unresolved Issues, eminent scholar Francois Grosjean provides a thorough examination of individual bilingualism that delves into unanswered questions and challenges many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding bilingualism. Through insightful analyses of eleven key questions, this book offers a unique combination of personal reflection, literature review, personal testimony, and case studies to explore these mysteries. Altogether, this text offers comprehensive explorations of the linguistic aspects of bilingualism, including who is bilingual, describing bilinguals, accented speech, and language loss, as well as in-depth examinations of personality and culture in relation to bilingualism and biculturalism, and practical discussions of speech and language processing, including language choice and mixed speech perception and production. --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Who Is Bilingual?

Definitions and Their Evolution

Describing Bilinguals

2. How Many Bilinguals Are There?

The Extent of Bilingualism

On the Difficulties of Counting People Who Are Bilingual

The Proportion of Bilinguals in a Number of Countries

Estimating the Percentage of Bilinguals in the World

3. Bilingual Infants' Journey to Language Separation

Perception Studies

Taking Pragmatics into Account

A Brief Account of Language Separation

4. Having an Accent in One of Your Languages

General Aspects

The Phonetic Characteristics of Accents

How Well Is Accented Speech Understood?

Factors that Affect the Degree of a Foreign Accent

Accent in a Third Language

5. Language Loss in Adults and Children

Language Loss in Adults

Language Loss in Young Children

6. Brain Injury and Bilingualism

A Personal Testimony

Language Impairment and Recovery in Bilingual Aphasia

Factors that Account for Impairment and Recovery

A Recent Meta-Analysis

Language Mixing and Aphasia

7. The Bilingual's Languages in Interaction

Choosing the Language of the Interaction

What Role for the Other Language?

Experimental Work on Language Mixing

The Language Mode Concept

8. What a Bilingual's Languages Are Used For

What Past Research Has Revealed

Recent Interest in Bilingual Language Use

Measuring Bilingual Language Use

Impact of Bilingual Language Use

9. Is Language Processing in Bilinguals Selective or Non-selective?

Language Perception and Comprehension

Spoken Language Production

10. Bilinguals Who Are also Bicultural

Describing Biculturals

Becoming Bicultural and the Evolution of Biculturalism over Time

Acting Biculturally

Bicultural Identity

11. Change of Language, Change of Personality?

Opinions and Beliefs

Pioneering Research on the Question

Feeling Different When Using Different Languages

Is a Change of Personality Involved When Changing Languages?

An Explanation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Grosjean, François. Mysteries of bilingualism

ISBN:

9781119602378

1119602378

OCLC:

1304833712