**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**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
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xii
Introduction xxi
Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie
Part I Overview and Foundations 1
Introduction 3
Tej K. Bhatia
1 Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts 5
John Edwards
2 Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research 26
Li Wei
Part II Neurological and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism 53
Introduction 55
William C. Ritclc,
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