A Journey in Languages and Cultures The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual

Francois Grosjean is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. He has worked at Northeastern University, Boston, was a Research Affiliate at MIT, and has lectured at the universities of Basel, Zurich, and Oxford. His research interests include bilingualism and biculturalism, the perception, comprehension, and production of speech, sign language and the bilingualism of the Deaf, the evaluation of speech comprehension in aphasic patients, and the modelling of language processing. He is the author of several books on bilingualism, including Studying Bilinguals (OUP, 2008), Bilingual: Life and Reality (Harvard University Press, 2010), The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism (with Ping Li; Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and The Listening Bilingual (with Krista Byers-Heinlein; Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

1. Roger and Sallie
2. My early monolingual years
3. Becoming bilingual
4. Culture shock
5. Returning to my first culture
6. May 68 and Vincennes
7. A new life in the United States
8. Discovering sign language
9. Life with Two Languages
10. The children become bilingual
11. Reflections on the bilingual and the bicultural person
12. A difficult choice
13. Living and working in a fourth culture
14. Delving further into the bilingual person
15. A life in danger
16. A quieter life
Conclusion