Book description
Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and
revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary
issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.
- Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team,
and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to
heritage language learning
- Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and
multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization,
indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages,
multilingualism, and forensic linguistics
- Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned
researchers from different disciplines
- Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and
psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling
- Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the
phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and
emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce
Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South
Asian Languages at Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the
Chancellor's Citation Award for excellence in research. He has
published a number of books, articles and book chapters in the areas
of bilingualism, multiculturalism, media discourse, socio- and
psycho-linguistics, and the structure and typology of English and
South Asian languages. Publications include Colloquial Urdu: The
Complete Course for Beginners (2000), Colloquial Hindi: The
Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd
Edition (2007), Advertising and Marketing in Rural India, 2nd
Edition (2007), and The New Handbook of Second Language
Acquisition (co-edited with William C. Ritchie, 2009).
William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at
Syracuse University, where he teaches courses in general linguistics
and second-language acquisition. His publications include an edited
volume entitled Second Language Acquisition Research: Issues and
Implications (1978). He has co-edited four handbooks with Tej K.
Bhatia, including Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (1999).
