Understanding Language Contact

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367766604
• ISBN13: 9780367766603
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"