: Elka Todeva, Jasone Cenoz
: The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism Personal Narratives and Researchers' Perspectives
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110224481
: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]ISSN
: 1
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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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 of research on language development revealing a richer and much more nuanced picture of multilingualism.



Elka Todeva, SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, USA.

Jasone Cenoz,University of the Basque Country, Spain.

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Preface7
Acknowledgements9
Contents11
Chapter 1 Multilingualism: Emic and etic perspectives13
Chapter 2 A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection45
Chapter 3 Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: The mini universes within65
Chapter 4 My ways to Rome: Routes to multilingualism87
Chapter 5 Incomplete journeys: A quest for multilingualism105
Chapter 6 The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: The workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual127
Chapter 7 A life of learning languages147
Chapter 8 Linguistic cunning: From Burton to babelfish165
Chapter 9 A “new breed” of American?183
Chapter 10 Where art and nature meet203
Chapter 11 A multilingual journey from East to West221
Chapter 12 Roots, branches and seeds235
Chapter 13 Expanding languages, expanding worlds255
Chapter 14 The well and the bucket: The emic and etic perspectives combined277
The contributors305
Author index309
Language index312