Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.

'...contain[s] a significant amount of useful and well-researched debate, much of which may be the source of some interesting debates. It is certainly a useable book for the postgraduate researcher at which it is aimed, as well as for the more established academic.' - David Hill, Journal of Sociolinguistics

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JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS Junior Professor on Mediated Communication, University of Hannover, Germany PETER AUER Chair of German Linguistics, Universität Freiburg, Germany BENJAMIN BAILEY Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA EMANUEL DA SILVA University of Toronto, Canada ALEXANDRE DUCHÊNE Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Department of French Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland PAUL B.GARRETT Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, USA ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associate Professor of Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach, USA MARILYN MARTIN-JONES Professor of Languages in Education, University of Birmingham, UK MIREILLE MCLAUGHLIN University of Toronto, Canada LORENZA MONDADA Professor of Linguistics, Université Lyon 2, France MELISSA G. MOYER Associate Professor, Department of Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain SHAYLIH MUEHLMANN Doctoral Student in Linguistic Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada DONNA PATRICK Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University, Canada JOAN PUJOLAR Professor, Department of Humanities and Philology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain MARY RICHARDS University of Toronto, Canada LUISA MARTIN ROJO Associate Professor of Linguistics, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Spain CHRIS STROUD University of Western Cape, South Africa ANDRÉE TABOURET-KELLER Université de Strasbourg, France LUKAS TSITSIPIS Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Department of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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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.Duchêne 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