This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families in the early-2

Even a cursory look at conference programs and proceedings reveals a burgeoning interest in the field of social and affective factors in home language maintenan

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of th

A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.