TY - BOOK ID - 19336279 TI - Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism AU - Coulmas, Florian AU - Daming, Xu AU - Dewaele, Jean-Marc AU - Edwards, John AU - Fishman, Joshua A AU - García, Ofelia AU - Housen, Alex AU - Jernudd, Björn Η AU - Kalogjera, Damir AU - Mackey, William F AU - Marr, Tim AU - Nelde, Peter H AU - Schiffman, Harold F AU - Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove AU - Smolicz, J J AU - Spolsky, Bernard AU - Traugh, Cecelia AU - Viikberg, Jüri AU - Weber, Peter J AU - Wei, Li AU - Wölck, Wolfgang AU - Klerk, Vivian de AU - Watanabe, Makoto PY - 2011 VL - 87 SN - 3110173050 3110852004 9783110852004 9783110173055 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Language maintenance. KW - Language loyalty KW - Maintenance of language KW - Bilingualism. KW - Language and languages KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Languages in contact KW - Multilingualism KW - Maintenance KW - Bilingualism KW - Bilinguisme KW - Sociolinguistique KW - Case studies KW - Cas, Etudes de UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19336279 AB - This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters. ER -