Multiple voices
an introduction to bilingualism
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Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. Multiple Voices: The Word from China. 1. 1 Introduction. 1. 2 Bilinguals and their languages. 1. 3 Views about bilinguals. 1. 4 Learning a second language. 1. 5 Where did bilingualism come from? 1. 6 Linguists: what they know and don't know. 1. 7 Why so many languages? 1. 8 The rationale for many languages today. 1. 9 Attitudes about language. 1. 10 Linguistics and bilingualism. 1. 11 Why bilingualism matters to you. 1. 12 Bilingualism: Practical considerations. 1. 13 How the book is organized . 1. 14 Words and phrases to remember. 2. What's a Language? What's a Dialect? What "Social Work" do they do? Multiple voices: the word from italy. 2. 1 Introduction. 2. 2 What counts as a language? 2. 3 Problems with mutual intelligibility. 2. 4 Dialects as groupings under a language. 2. 5 The written language and dialects. 2. 6 Identifying the standard dialect. 2. 7 Who speaks a dialect? 2. 8 Summing up. 2. 9 Words and phrases to remember. 3. Who is