One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching

The contemporary setting of bilingualism studiesIn the last forty years or so, developments such as the expansion of educational provision to many more levels of society, massive population shifts through migra tion, and technological advances in mass communication have served to accent uate our sense of a visibly and audibly m ultilingual modern world.O ther largescale social changes have combined to lead to a considerable increase in bilin gualism, not only as a European but as a world-wide phenomenon.