Research on the effect of bilingualism on third language acquisition was initially set in the framework of the study of potential differences between monolinguals acquiring a second language and bilinguals learning a third language. However, many authors have already started to concentrate on third language acquisition itself, and have…

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Ukraine and other Newly Independent States were invaded by armies of consultants from Western donor organizations. Development agencies like the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, Tacis, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the…

The ability of multilinguals to remember the language of linguistically mixed material was studied in two experiments. (Editor)

The history of lexicography in Vietnam is chronicled from early Chinese and missionary scholarship through the colonial period (1884-1946), the war years (1946-1954), the partition period (1954-1975), and the post-1975 period. The evolution of romanization, political-linguistic influences, native scholarship in lexicography, and dictionary types…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY WHICH WAS COMPILED FOR A SOCIOLINGUISTICS SEMINAR HELD AT THE LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, IN THE SUMMER OF 1964 AND AN ADDENDUM ADDED IN MAY 1967. THE PRIMARY EMPHASIS IS ON LANGUAGE IN ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL PHENOMENA. THE MAIN AREAS COVERED ARE (1) LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY, (2)…

This select bibliography contains 286 titles, 188 of which are annotated. Works published before 1967 were eliminated. While language teaching is a major concern, all aspects of education in a multilingual environment have been included. Entries are arranged in eight categories: (1) general, including reference works; (2) language; (3)…

Critically examines contemporary interactional studies of the cultural specificity of human language. The study is a cross-cultural analysis of misconstrued communications in human interaction, ascertaining whether these interactions are crucially dependent on nonlinguistic variables. (CB)

Despite its clear advantages, international broadcasting is a neglected technology in the promotion and learning of foreign languages. With good electronic reception and, thus, effective listening, the potential usefulness is great in the areas of oral receptive language skills, language acquisition, and cross-cultural understanding. (SL)

This paper presents an argument that language-use in multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa is as much a function of politics as it is of cognition and communication. It draws from a wider study focusing on language practices in intermediate multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa. In the study the notion of cultural…

Introduces this special issue of the journal. All of the articles but one were presented in a colloquium at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism at the University of the West of England. The theme of the conference was the multilingual classroom and specifically the complex interrelationships, interactions, and ideologies within such…

The ideology of a monolingual and monoracial Japan is being challenged by increasing language diversity in communities where Ainu, Ryukyuan, Chinese, English, Japanese Sign Language, Korean, and other languages are spoken. Government policies and school textbooks still resist the notion of a multilingual Japan. (SK)

South Africa's new language policy recognizes 11 official languages. For a multilingual policy to succeed in education requires flexibility for provinces, schools, and classrooms to implement it to meet the needs of specific populations. (SK)

Reviews work on language contact phenomena in advertising. More emphasis is being placed on multilingual discourses in advertising and the ways in which these index identities, both of the products and services with which multiple cods are associated and of the consumers who peruse them. Also examines the various functions of different contact…

Offers lessons learned about working in multicultural and multilingual environments: (1) carefully plan communication requiring interpreters/translators; (2) strive for mutual knowledge creation; and (3) allow for sufficient time and process in workshops to support participants' need for clarification. (JOW)

Discusses various language border theories for the Belgian-Northern French area, and summarizes the results of 40 years of research into the development of the Romance-Germanic language border at large. Suggests that a late Roman Latin-Germanic opposition has functioned as a direct predisposition for the early medieval Romance-Germanic language…