The multiple realities of multilingualism : personal narratives and researchers' perspectives / edited by Elka Todeva, Jasone Cenoz.
Twelve narratives offer unique personal insights into what shapes the development and maintenance of multiple languages in a single individual. The authors are multilinguals from four continents representing a wide variety of languages and voices. The narratives are analyzed against the background o...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
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| Series: | Trends in applied linguistics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Multilingualism: emic and etic perspectives / Elka Todeva and Jasone Cenoz
- A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection / Radmila Popovic
- Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: the mini universes within / Elka Todeva
- My ways to Rome : routes to multilingualism / Heike M.E. Tappe
- Incomplete journeys: a quest for multilingualism / Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty
- The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: the workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual / Chimwemwe Mayinde Mystic Kamanga
- A life of learning languages / Sally Freedman
- Linguistic cunning: from Burton to babelfish / Hamzah Henshaw
- A 'new breed' of American? / Charles Kowalski
- Where art and nature meet / Humphrey Tonkin
- A multilingual journey from East to West / Haiyan Hu
- Roots, branches and seeds / Neil O'Flaherty
- Expanding languages, expanding worlds / Alvino E. Fantini
- The Well and the bucket: the emic and etic perspectives combined / Jasone Cenoz and Elka Todeva.