Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies

Bayley (U. of Texas at San Antonio) and Schecter (York U., Toronto) bring together essays by 20 established and new scholarly voices from the U.S. and Canada examining how children, adolescents, and adults in fluid bilingual and multilingual contexts are socialized by and through language into new domains of knowledge and cultural practice. Organized into sections on language socialization at home, in school, in peer groups and communities, and in the workplace, the essays cover not only often-studied Canadian and American communities, but also groups in Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, India and Slovakia. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR