The multiple realities of multilingualism personal narratives and researchers' perspectives

Todeva, Elka, 1954- (Added Author). Cenoz, Jasone. (Added Author).

Summary: Twelve narratives offer unique personal insights into what shapes the development and maintenance of multiple languages in a single individual. The authors are multilinguals from four continents representing a wide variety of languages and voices. The narratives are analyzed against the background of research on language development revealing a richer and much more nuanced picture of multilingualism.

Record details

ISBN: 9783110224481 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 3110224488 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9783110224474 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 311022447X (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 302 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.10.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Multilingualism: emic and etic perspectives / Elka Todeva and Jasone Cenoz -- A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection / Radmila Popovic -- Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: the mini universes within / Elka Todeva -- My ways to Rome : routes to multilingualism / Heike M.E. Tappe -- Incomplete journeys: a quest for multilingualism / Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty -- The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: the workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual / Chimwemwe Mayinde Mystic Kamanga -- A life of learning languages / Sally Freedman -- Linguistic cunning: from Burton to babelfish / Hamzah Henshaw -- A 'new breed' of American? / Charles Kowalski -- Where art and nature meet / Humphrey Tonkin -- A multilingual journey from East to West / Haiyan Hu -- Roots, branches and seeds / Neil O'Flaherty -- Expanding languages, expanding worlds / Alvino E. Fantini -- The Well and the bucket: the emic and etic perspectives combined / Jasone Cenoz and Elka Todeva.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.