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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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A Paperback by Evangelia Adamou, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

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

    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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