The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this is a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view of the emerging area of heritage language study.

Silvina Montrul (Edited by), Maria Polinsky (Edited by)

9781108487269, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 November 2021

988 pages
25.2 x 17.6 x 5 cm, 1.99 kg

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Introduction – heritage languages, heritage speakers, heritage linguistics Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky
Part I. Heritage Languages Around the World: 1. Slavic heritage languages around the globe Bernhard Brehmmer
2. Heritage languages in Europe Tanja Kupisch
3. Heritage languages in Southeastern Europe Natalia Pavlou and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
4. Heritage languages in China Linda Tsung and Lubei Zhang
5. Heritage languages in Japan and Korea Hyun-Sook Kang and James Hye Suk Yoon
6. Heritage languages in Israel Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronald Shabtaev, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem
7. Heritage languages in New Zealand and Australia Corinne Seals
8. Heritage languages in Canada Naomi Nagy
9. Asian heritage languages in the United States – Chinese and Hindi language communities Shereen Bhalla, Na Liu and Terence G. Wiley
10. The vitality of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States Maria M. Carreira
11. Germanic heritage varieties in the Americas – social and linguistic perspectives Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph Salmons
12. Arabic in North America Abdulkafi Albirini
13. Heritage languages in South America John M. Lipski
14. Language attrition and heritage language reversal in returnees Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Part II. Research Approaches to Heritage Languages: 15. Heritage language research and theoretical linguistics Elabbas Benmamoun
16. The emergence of heritage language – a case study from Korean William O'Grady and Chae-Eun Kim
17. Sociolinguistic approaches to heritage languages Andrew Lynch and Netta Avineri
18. The psycholinguistics of heritage languages Jill Jegerski and Irina Sekerina
19. Contact linguistics and heritage languages Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez and Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda
20. A narrative-ethnographic approach to research on heritage language development Agnes Weiyun He
21. Corpus-based methodologies in the study of heritage languages Olesya Kisselev
22. Current trends and emerging methodologies in charting heritage language grammars Fatih Bayram, Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman and Roumyana Slabakova
Part III. Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages: 23. Phonetics and phonology Charles B. Chang
24. Morphology Michael Putnam, Lara Schwarz and Andrew Hoffman
25. Syntax Terje Lohndal
26. Semantics of heritage languages Tania Ionin
27. Discourse and information structure in heritage languages Oksana Laleko
28. Pragmatics in heritage languages Irina Dubinina
Part IV. Heritage Language Education: 29. Elementary school heritage language educational options and outcomes Kim Potowski
30. Community-organized heritage language programs Jin Sook Lee and Huay Chen
31. Curricular and programmatic language development opportunities for university-level heritage language learners Sara Beaudrie
32. Instructed heritage language acquisition Melissa A. Bowles and Julio Torres
33. Issues and practices in community-based experiential learning for heritage speakers in the United States Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez, Adriana Ojeda and Diego Pascual y Cabo
34. Developing Spanish heritage language biliteracy María Cecilia Colombi
35. Heritage language assessment Kimi Kondo-Brown
36. Embracing opportunity in heritage language revitalization Maria Schwedhelm, Kate Stemper and Kendall King
37. Heritage language planning and policy Terrence G. Wiley.

Subject Areas: Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF], Bilingualism & multilingualism [CFDM], Language acquisition [CFDC], Sociolinguistics [CFB]