Bilingualism: A Social Approach

MONICA HELLER is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her major publications in the field of bilingualism include Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives; Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography; Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference (edited with Marilyn Martin-Jones) and most recently Discours et identiti?s. La francit? canadienne entre modernit? et mondialisation (edited with Normand Labrie).

• Acknowledgements Bilingualism as Ideology and Practice; M.Heller PART 1: BILINGUALISM, NATION, STATE AND CAPITALISM Bilingualism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism; C.Stroud Minority Language Movements; A.Jaffe Bilingualism and the Nation-State in ihe Post-National Era; J.Pujolar Beyond the Nation-State: International Agencies as New Sites of Discourses on Bilingualism; S.Muehlmann & A.Duchêne Language Endangerment, Language Rights and Indigeneity; D.Patrick PART 2: THE STATE, THE ECONOMY AND THEIR AGENCIES IN LATE MODERNITY Language, Migration and Citizenship: New Challenges in the Regulation of Bilingualism; M.G.Moyer & L.M.Rojo Multilingualism, Education and the Regulation of Access to Language Resources: Changing Research Perspectives; M.Martin-Jones Bilingualism and the Globalized New Economy: The Commodification of Language and Identity; E.Da Silva, M.Mclaughlin & M.Richards Bilingualism in the Mass Media and on the Internet; J.Androutsopoulos PART 3: IDENTITY PRACTICES Language Socialization and the (Re)Production of Bilingual Subjectivities; P.B.Garrett Heteroglossia and Boundaries; B.Bailey PART 4: LINGUISTIC FORM AND LINGUISTIC PRACTICE Bilingualism, Praxis and Linguistic Description; L.Tsitsipis Bilingualism and the Analysis of Talk at Work: Code-Switching as a Resource for the Organization of Action and Interaction; L.Mondada The Monolingual Bias in Bilingualism Research, Or: Why Bilingual Talk is (Still) a Challenge for Linguistics; P.Auer The Future of "Bilingualism"; M.Heller Post-Face : Politique et Idéologie: La cas du Bilinguisme (Politics and Ideology: The Case of Bilingualism); A.Tabouret-Keller (English Summary: Politics and Ideology : The Case of Bilingualism) Index

'...contain[s] a significant amount of useful and well-researched debate, much of which may be the source of some interesting debates. It is certainly a useable book for the postgraduate researcher at which it is aimed, as well as for the more established academic.' - David Hill, Journal of Sociolinguistics