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Introduction; Part I. Global and Societal Issues in Multilingualism and Trilingualism: 1. Historical perspectives of language contact; 2. Patterns of societal multilingualism; 3. Old and new linguistic minorities; 4. Globalisation, language spread and new multilingualisms; Part II. Construing Individual Multilingualism: 5. Individual multilingualism; 6. Multilingual language competence and use; 7. Accommodating multilingualism; 8. Multilingual education and multilingual literacies; Glossary; References; Index.

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Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.

About the Author

Anat Stavans is a Professor in Applied Linguistics at Beit Berl College and a researcher at the Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Charlotte Hoffmann was formerly Reader in Sociolinguistics at the University of Salford, UK.

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'The authors of this book demonstrate that multilingualism is as old as humanity itself. Language and politics have always been intertwined, creating amazing and conflictual complexity … This is a very clear and highly informative book.' Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London

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