Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries

Nine articles by linguists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the US explore multiple language use and policy with an emphasis on education. Among the countries are Belarus, Ukraine, Moldava, Lithuania, and Tajikistan. Of particular interest are efforts by newly independent and nationalistic governments to purge Russian from public view, in the case of Ukraine, for example, even though Russian is the native tongue of 30% of the population. No index is provided. The articles also appear in The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism vol. 11, no 3+4 (2008). Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is an Associate Professor at the College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She has lectured widely in Europe, North America, and Japan, and published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism and second language acquisition. She is an author of Emotions and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-author of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition (with Scott Jarvis; Routledge, 2008), editor of Bilingual Minds (Multilingual Matters, 2006) and co-editor of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2004).