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Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different interactional networks and timeframes, and the historical outcomes of contact-induced language change, this book:

  • Discusses both how these areas relate to one another and how they correspond to different theoretical fields and methodologies;
  • Draws together concepts and methodological/theoretical advances from the related fields of bilingualism and sociolinguistics to show how these can shed new light on the traditional field of contact linguistics;
  • Presents up-to-date research in a digestible form;
  • Includes examples from a wide range of contact languages,

    Table of Contents

    List of Abbreviations

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    PART I

    From milliseconds to minutes: What bilinguals do when they speak or sign

    Chapter 1

    Interactive alignment and implicit priming

    Chapter 2

    Conceptual transfer

    Chapter 3

    Cognitive costs and cognitive load

    PART II

    From minutes to years: What bilinguals do when they communicate with others

    Chapter 4

    Code-switching, repertoires, and translanguaging

    Chapter 5

    Social networks and accommodation

    Chapter 6

    Acquisition and attrition

    Chapter 7

    Language ideologies and dispositions

    PART III

    From years to centuries: How languages change through contact

    Chapter 8

    Contact-induced changes in grammar and borrowing

    Chapter 9

    Linguistic areas

    Chapter 10

    Creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages

    Chapter 11

    Minority languages, heritage languages, and immigrant linguistic practices

    Conclusion

    Answers to exercises

    Glossary

    Author index

    Subject index

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 8/29/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780367766597, 978-0367766597
      ISBN10: 0367766590
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different interactional networks and timeframes, and the historical outcomes of contact-induced language change, this book:

      • Discusses both how these areas relate to one another and how they correspond to different theoretical fields and methodologies;
      • Draws together concepts and methodological/theoretical advances from the related fields of bilingualism and sociolinguistics to show how these can shed new light on the traditional field of contact linguistics;
      • Presents up-to-date research in a digestible form;
      • Includes examples from a wide range of contact languages,

        Table of Contents

        List of Abbreviations

        Preface

        Acknowledgments

        PART I

        From milliseconds to minutes: What bilinguals do when they speak or sign

        Chapter 1

        Interactive alignment and implicit priming

        Chapter 2

        Conceptual transfer

        Chapter 3

        Cognitive costs and cognitive load

        PART II

        From minutes to years: What bilinguals do when they communicate with others

        Chapter 4

        Code-switching, repertoires, and translanguaging

        Chapter 5

        Social networks and accommodation

        Chapter 6

        Acquisition and attrition

        Chapter 7

        Language ideologies and dispositions

        PART III

        From years to centuries: How languages change through contact

        Chapter 8

        Contact-induced changes in grammar and borrowing

        Chapter 9

        Linguistic areas

        Chapter 10

        Creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages

        Chapter 11

        Minority languages, heritage languages, and immigrant linguistic practices

        Conclusion

        Answers to exercises

        Glossary

        Author index

        Subject index

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