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This volume provides a critical examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of social regulation in State and civil society in the 20th and 21st centuries. It attempts to move the field away from a common sense , but in fact highly ideologized, view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, and to develop a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism in a way that allows for a better grasp of the ways in which language practices and socially and politically embedded.
Students and researchers will find a fresh, expansive and critical view of bilingualism, underpinned by cutting-edge research, The book as a whole demonstrates that it is fruitful to examine these processes historically, from a political economy perspective, but that the questions it raises require linking linguistic form to linguistic practice in a number of sites and in a number of ways.

Bilingualism: A Social Approach

Acknowledgements Bilingualism as Ideology and Practice; M.Heller PART 1: BILINGUALISM, NATION, STATE AND CAPITALISM Bilingualism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism; C.Stroud Minority Language Movements; A.Jaffe Bilingualism and the Nation-State in ihe Post-National Era; J.Pujolar Beyond the Nation-State: International Agencies as New Sites of Discourses on Bilingualism; S.Muehlmann & A.Duchene Language Endangerment, Language Rights and Indigeneity; D.Patrick PART 2: THE STATE, THE ECONOMY AND THEIR AGENCIES IN LATE MODERNITY Language, Migration and Citizenship: New Challenges in the Regulation of Bilingualism; M.G.Moyer & L.M.Rojo Multilingualism, Education and the Regulation of Access to Language Resources: Changing Research Perspectives; M.Martin-Jones Bilingualism and the Globalized New Economy: The Commodification of Language and Identity; E.Da Silva, M.Mclaughlin & M.Richards Bilingualism in the Mass Media and on the Internet; J.Androutsopoulos PART 3: IDENTITY PRACTICES Language Socialization and the (Re)Production of Bilingual Subjectivities; P.B.Garrett Heteroglossia and Boundaries; B.Bailey PART 4: LINGUISTIC FORM AND LINGUISTIC PRACTICE Bilingualism, Praxis and Linguistic Description; L.Tsitsipis Bilingualism and the Analysis of Talk at Work: Code-Switching as a Resource for the Organization of Action and Interaction; L.Mondada The Monolingual Bias in Bilingualism Research, Or: Why Bilingual Talk is (Still) a Challenge for Linguistics; P.Auer The Future of "Bilingualism"; M.Heller Post-Face : Politique et Idéologie: La cas du Bilinguisme (Politics and Ideology: The Case of Bilingualism); A.Tabouret-Keller (English Summary: Politics and Ideology : The Case of Bilingualism) Index