According to the editors of this volume, models and theories of linguistic analysis that arebased on a study of monolingual societies are no longer appropriate for our contemporary world.Fueled by an interest in examining “multilingual and pluricultural societies wherelearning more than one language and accommodating multiple identities is a way of life”(p. 17), they have collected 11 papers as well as an introductory essay that analyze secondlanguage learning in a range of interesting multicultural settings. For example, there are paperson the acquisition of Hindi by Tamils in Delhi, English and German by Indian undergraduates atthe University of Delhi, and English by immigrants from six different countries in Britain.