Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Bilingualism and language contact -- I Social aspects of the bilingual community -- 2 Language and identity -- 3 The sociology of language choke -- 4 Language maintenance and shift -- 5 Language planning -- 6 Bilingual education -- II The bilingual speaker -- 7 Psychological dimensions of bilingualism -- 8 Second-language acquisition -- 9 The effects of bilingualism -- III Language use in the bilingual community -- 10 Code switching and code mixing -- 11 Strategies of neutrality -- 12 Strategies and problems in bilingual interaction -- IV Linguistic consequences -- 13 Language contact and language change -- 14 Lexical borrowing -- 15 Pidgins and creoles -- References -- Index to languages and countries -- Subject index -- Author index