This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters.

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Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism
I. Theoretical frameworks
“Holy languages” in the context of societal bilingualism
Forlorn hope?
When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios
Core values and nation-states
II. Bilingualism worldwide
French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism?
The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries
Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra
On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status
Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect
The development of Navajo-English bilingualism
Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
Xhosa as a “home appliance”? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown
Japan’s nascent multilingualism
III. Multilingual management and education
Managing multilingualism in Singapore
Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment
Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students
Coda
Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism
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