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- Multilingualism—language diversity in society—is a perfect expression of human plurality. About 6,500–7,000 languages are spoken, written, and signed, throughout the linguistic landscape of the world, by people who communicate in more than one language.
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Why should bilingualism (or multilingualism) be of particular sociolinguistic interest? It is an ability possessed by the majority of human beings—most of them relatively uneducated, many of them illiterate—which, in appropriate circumstances, can be acquired quite easily, even by the young.
Nov 22, 2018 · Definitions include: ‘Multilingualism is the presence of a number of languages in one country or community or. city’; ‘Multilingualism is the use of three or more languages’; and ...
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- Understanding Multilingualism in Context. In a world in which people are increasingly mobile and ethnically self-aware, living with not just a single but multiple identities, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism take on increasing importance from both scholarly and pragmatic points of view.
- Bilingualism as a Natural Global Phenomenon: Becoming Bilingual.
- Describing Bilingualism. Unlike monolingualism, childhood bilingualism is not the only source and stage of acquiring two or more languages. Bilingualism is a lifelong process involving a host of factors (e.g., marriage, immigration, and education), different processes (e.g., input conditions, input types, input modalities and age), and yielding differential end results in terms of differential stages of fossilization and learning curve (U-shape or nonlinear curve during their grammar and interactional development).
- The Bilingual Mind: Language Organization, Language Choices, and Verbal Behavior. Unlike monolinguals, a decision to speak multiple languages requires a complex unconscious process on the part of bilinguals.
Overview. Authors: Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Manuela Vida-Mannl. Takes a broad perspective on multilingualism as a continuum of linguistic repertoires and resources. Discusses and contextualises the debate over what instances of language use 'count' as multilingual.
Summary. This chapter discusses the consequences of linguistic diversity at the level of the individual, and the level of society, that is, the relationship of languages and their speakers within a given territory. It also considers the interaction of multilingualism and multiculturalism as two partially overlapping but non-identical concepts.
Apr 16, 2012 · Abstract. The study of spoken discourse in a mixture of languages, commonly called ‘conversational code-switching’, has a history of several decades, and a number of well-developed theories compete to account for it. A number of researchers have studied multilingual written discourse from different perspectives, but most of these studies ...
May 25, 2017 · Abstract. Multilingualism—language diversity in society—is a perfect expression of human plurality. About 6,500–7,000 languages are spoken, written, and signed, throughout the linguistic landscape of the world, by people who communicate in more than one language.
