Chapter 14 The well and the bucket: The emic and etic perspectives combined

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Chapter 1 Multilingualism: Emic and etic perspectives 1
4. Chapter 2 A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection 33
5. Chapter 3 Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: The mini universes within 53
6. Chapter 4 My ways to Rome: Routes to multilingualism 75
7. Chapter 5 Incomplete journeys: A quest for multilingualism 93
8. Chapter 6 The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: The workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual 115
9. Chapter 7 A life of learning languages 135
10. Chapter 8 Linguistic cunning: From Burton to babelfish 153
11. Chapter 9 A “new breed” of American? 171
12. Chapter 10 Where art and nature meet 191
13. Chapter 11 A multilingual journey from East to West 209
14. Chapter 12 Roots, branches and seeds 223
15. Chapter 13 Expanding languages, expanding worlds 243
16. Chapter 14 The well and the bucket: The emic and etic perspectives combined 265
17. Backmatter 293