Bilingualism: A Social Approach [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Bilingualism as Ideology and Practice; M.Heller PART 1: BILINGUALISM, NATION, STATE AND CAPITALISM Bilingualism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism; C.Stroud Minority Language Movements; A.Jaffe Bilingualism and the Nation-State in ihe Post-National Era; J.Pujolar Beyond the Nation-State: International Agencies as New Sites of Discourses on Bilingualism; S.Muehlmann & A.Duch?ne Language Endangerment, Language Rights and Indigeneity; D.Patrick PART 2: THE STATE, THE ECONOMY AND THEIR AGENCIES IN LATE MODERNITY Language, Migration and Citizenship: New Challenges in the Regulation of Bilingualism; M.G.Moyer & L.M.Rojo Multilingualism, Education and the Regulation of Access to Language Resources: Changing Research Perspectives; M.Martin-Jones Bilingualism and the Globalized New Economy: The Commodification of Language and Identity; E.Da Silva, M.Mclaughlin & M.Richards Bilingualism in the Mass Media and on the Internet; J.Androutsopoulos PART 3: IDENTITY PRACTICES Language Socialization and the (Re)Production of Bilingual Subjectivities; P.B.Garrett Heteroglossia and Boundaries; B.Bailey PART 4: LINGUISTIC FORM AND LINGUISTIC PRACTICE Bilingualism, Praxis and Linguistic Description; L.Tsitsipis Bilingualism and the Analysis of Talk at Work: Code-Switching as a Resource for the Organization of Action and Interaction; L.Mondada The Monolingual Bias in Bilingualism Research, Or: Why Bilingual Talk is (Still) a Challenge for Linguistics; P.Auer The Future of Bilingualism ; M.Heller Post-Face : Politique et Id?ologie: La cas du Bilinguisme (Politics and Ideology: The Case of Bilingualism); A.Tabouret-Keller (Englil#,