Bilingualism: A Social Approach

Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.

JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS Junior Professor on Mediated Communication, University of Hannover, Germany PETER AUER Chair of German Linguistics, Universität Freiburg, Germany BENJAMIN BAILEY Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA EMANUEL DA SILVA University of Toronto, Canada ALEXANDRE DUCHÊNE Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Department of French Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland PAUL B.GARRETT Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, USA ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associate Professor of Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach, USA MARILYN MARTIN-JONES Professor of Languages in Education, University of Birmingham, UK MIREILLE MCLAUGHLIN University of Toronto, Canada LORENZA MONDADA Professor of Linguistics, Université Lyon 2, France MELISSA G. MOYER Associate Professor, Department of Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain SHAYLIH MUEHLMANN Doctoral Student in Linguistic Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada DONNA PATRICK Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University, Canada JOAN PUJOLAR Professor, Department of Humanities and Philology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain MARY RICHARDS University of Toronto, Canada LUISA MARTIN ROJO Associate Professor of Linguistics, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Spain CHRIS STROUD University of Western Cape, South Africa ANDRÉE TABOURET-KELLER Université de Strasbourg, France LUKAS TSITSIPIS Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Department of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.