The multiple realities of multilingualism: personal narratives and researchers' perspectives
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter ©2009
Series:Trends in applied linguistics 3
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 302 pages)
ISBN:3110224488
9783110224481

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