Provides an examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of social regulation in state and civil society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The contributors to this volume provide a critical examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of social regulation in state and civil society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They attempt to move the field away from a common sense, but in fact highly ideologized, view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, and to develop a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistics practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.

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.Duchene - 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 Ideologie: La cas du Bilinguisme (Politics and Ideology: The Case of Bilingualism)
A.Tabouret-Keller - (English Summary: Politics and Ideology : The Case of Bilingualism) - Index