{"id":13,"date":"2008-02-05T17:38:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-06-01T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T14:48:31","slug":"the-handbook-of-bilingualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The handbook of bilingualism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The handbook of bilingualism. <\/strong>Ed. by Tej K. Bhatia<\/strong> and William C. Ritchie<\/strong>. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. xviii, 884. ISBN 0631227342<\/a>. $146.95 (Hb).<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Bingyun Li<\/strong>, Fujian Normal University<\/em><\/p>\n

This handbook is divided into four parts. Part 1, \u2018Overview and foundations\u2019, presents some foundational issues of bilingualism (John V. Edwards<\/strong>) and conceptual and methodological issues in studying bilingualism (Fran\u00e7ois Grosjean<\/strong>). It is a pity that Grosjean does not touch upon how to collect, transcribe, and categorize naturalistic data or on problems related to data analysis.<\/p>\n

Part 2, \u2018Neurological and psychological aspects of bilingualism\u2019, is divided into five sections. Section 1, \u2018Neurology\u2019, contains only one chapter, which looks at the phenomenon of bilingual aphasia (Elizabeth Ijalba<\/strong>, Loraine K. Obler<\/strong>, and Shyamala Chengappa<\/strong>). Section 2, \u2018Approaches to bilingualism and language acquisition\u2019, deals with the development of child bilingualism (J\u00fcrgen M. Meisel<\/strong>) and the relationship between bilingualism and second language acquisition (Yuko G. Butler<\/strong> and Kenji Hakuta<\/strong>). Section 3, \u2018Bilingual language use: Knowledge, comprehension, and production\u2019, focuses on how grammar plays a role in bilinguals\u2019 speech comprehension and production. It would be better if pragmatic aspects of bilingual language use were also included. Section 4, \u2018Bilingualism: Memory, cognition, and emotion\u2019,<\/span> looks at bilingual memory (Roberto Heredia<\/strong> and Jefferey M. Brown<\/strong>) and emotional and mental aspects of bilinguals (Jeanette Altarriba<\/strong> and Rachel Morier<\/strong>). The final section, \u2018The bilingual\u2019s repertoire: Code mixing, code switching, and speech accommodation\u2019,<\/span> treats code mixing, code switching, and speech accommodation, the more extensively researched areas in bilingualism. Of particular note are Ch. 13, \u2018Social and psychological factors in language mixing\u2019 (William C. Ritchie<\/strong> and Tej K. Bhatia<\/strong>), and Ch. 14, \u2018Bilingual accommodation\u2019 (Itesh Sachdev<\/strong> and Howard Giles<\/strong>), the latter of which \u2018aims to provide a general overview of a social psychological approach to bilingual communication that springboards from notions of bilingual accommodation\u2019 (353).<\/p>\n

Part 3, \u2018Societal bilingualism and its effects\u2019<\/span>, is divided into two sections and focuses on how social factors have an important bearing upon bilingualism. The first section, \u2018Language contact, maintenance, and endangerment\u2019 consists of five chapters. Ch. 15, \u2018The bilingual and multilingual community\u2019 (Suzanne Romaine<\/strong>), provides an overview of types of bilingual and multilingual communities. Ch. 16, \u2018Language maintenance, language shift, and reversing language shift\u2019 (Joshua A. Fishman<\/strong>), presents a blueprint for the restoration of endangered languages, an issue of major concern to many members of linguistic minorities. Ch. 17, \u2018Minority and endangered languages\u2019 (Nancy C. Dorian<\/strong>), provides an in-depth review of a wide variety of issues concerning the process of language endangerment. Ch. 18, \u2018Multilingualism in linguistic history: Creolization and indigenization\u2019 (Salikoko<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Mufwene<\/strong><\/span>),<\/span> argues against the traditional view that special processes of creolization and indigenization occur in multilingual societies and in favor of the notion that the processes occur in any case of language change determined by language contact. Finally, Ingrid Piller<\/strong> and Aneta Pavlenko<\/strong> (Ch. 19, \u2018Bilingualism and gender\u2019) <\/span>discuss gender and bilingualism in various contexts.<\/p>\n

In Section 2 of Part 3, \u2018Bilingualism: The media, education, and literacy\u2019, Ch. 20 (<\/span>\u2018Bilingualism in the global media and advertising\u2019 by Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie) is a review of work on the place of languages in a bi-\/multilingual society in the media in general and in advertising in particular. It addresses the question of why more than one language might be used in the advertiser\u2019s effort to attract buyers for products and services. Ch. 21, \u2018What do we know about bilingual education for majority-language students?\u2019 (Fred Genesee<\/strong>), reviews in depth the research on one case of bilingual education. Ch. 22, \u2018The impact of bilingualism on language and literacy development\u2019 (Ellen Bialystok<\/strong>), discusses the wide range of factors that contribute to or detract from success in the attainment of literacy in bilinguals.<\/p>\n

Part 4, \u2018Global perspectives and challenges: Case studies\u2019, examines the state of bilingualism in the Americas, in Europe, in Southern Africa, in East, South, and Central Asia, and finally, in the Middle East and in North Africa.<\/p>\n

All in all, this handbook covers current important issues in bilingualism studies and points to future possible directions. It promises to be the standard reference guide to research on bilingualism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The handbook of bilingualism. Ed. by Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. xviii, 884. ISBN 0631227342. $146.95 (Hb). Reviewed by Bingyun Li, Fujian Normal University This handbook is divided into four parts. Part 1, \u2018Overview and foundations\u2019, presents some foundational issues of bilingualism (John V. Edwards) and conceptual and methodological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}