Societal bilingualism 1
5 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Hugo Canelas Cardoso
- Societal bilingualism:
a) Definitions of speech community;
b) Communities of practice;
c) Societal versus individual multilingualism - overlaps and mismatches;
d) Distinction between de jure mono-/multilingualism vs de facto mono-/multilingualism (case studies: Ghana, Austria, Belgium);
e) Roots of societal bilingualism;
f) The practice of code-switching as an indicator of societal bilingualism;
g) Diglossia and pseudo-diglossia (case studies: Singapore and Kenya).