Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie -- PART I. OVERVIEW AND FOUNDATIONS -- Introduction / Tej K. Bhatia -- Foundations of bilingualism / John V. Edwards -- Studying bilinguals: methodological and conceptual issues / François Grosjean -- PART II. NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM -- Introduction / William C. Ritchie -- Neurology -- Bilingual aphasia / Elizabeth Ijalba ... [et al.] -- Approaches to bilingualism and language acquisition -- The bilingual child / Jürgen M. Meisel -- Bilingualism and second language acquisition / Yuko G. Butler, Kenji Hakuta -- Bilingual language use: knowledge, comprehension, and production -- Two linguistic systems in contact: grammar, phonology and lexicon / Pieter Muysken -- The comprehension of words and sentences in two languages / Judith F. Kroll, Paola E. Dussias -- Speech production in bilinguals / Albert Costa -- Bilingualism: memory, cognition, and emotion -- Bilingual memory / Roberto R. Heredia, Jeffrey M. Brown -- Bilingualism: language, emotion, and mental health / Jeanette Altarriba, Rachel G. Morier -- The bilingual's repertoire: code mixing, code switching, and speech accommodation -- Code switching and grammatical theory / Jeff MacSwan -- Sign language-spoken language bilingualism: code mixing and mode mixing by ASL-English bilinguals / Gerald P. Berent -- Social and psychological factors in language mixing / William C. Ritchie, Tej K. Bhatia -- Bilingual accommodation / Itesh Sachdev, Howard Giles -- PART III. SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM AND ITS EFFECTS -- Introduction / Tej K. Bhatia -- Language contact, maintenance, and endangerment -- The bilingual and multilingual community / Suzanne Romaine -- Language maintenance, language shift, and reversing language shift / Joshua A. Fishman -- Minority and endangered languages / Nancy C. Dorian -- Multilingualism in linguistic history: Creolization and indigenization / Salikoko Mufwene -- Bilingualism and gender / Ingrid Piller, Aneta Pavlenko -- Bilingualism: the media, education, and literacy -- Bilingualism in the global media and advertising / Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie -- What do we know about bilingual education for majority-language students? / Fred Genesee -- The impact of bilingualism on language and literacy development / Ellen Bialystok -- PART IV. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES: CASE STUDIES -- Introduction / William C. Ritchie -- Bilingualism in North America / William F. Mackey -- Bilingualism in Latin America / Anna Maria Escobar -- Bilingualism in Europe / Andrée Tabouret-Keller -- Turkish as an immigrant language in Europe / Ad Backus -- Bi-/multilingualism in Southern Africa / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- Bilingualism in East Asia / David C.S. Li, Sherman Lee -- Bilingualism in South Asia / Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie -- Changing language loyalties in Central Asia / Birgit Schlyter -- Bilingualism in the Middle East and North Africa: a focus on the Arabic-speaking world / Judith Rosenhouse, Mira Goral.