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1 - Language Contact in Population Structure

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Salikoko S. Mufwene  and
Anna María Escobar
Edited by
Salikoko Mufwene  and
Anna Maria Escobar
Salikoko Mufwene
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Anna Maria Escobar
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

This chapter situates plurilingualism (at the individual level) and multilingualism (at the societal level), depending on the researcher’s approach to language contact, as enablers of various consequences of language contact. The relevant phenomena include language endangerment and loss (through language shift), codemixing and codeswitching (or translanguaging), the emergence of creoles, other mixed language varieties (including urban youth “stylects”), colonial varieties of European languages (such as Spanish), super-diversity, as well as structural change, borrowing, and the emergence of lingua francas. Concepts such as foreign workers’ interlanguages are contrasted with creoles and pidgins. Differences in their emergence are grounded in second language learning, degree and type of exposure to the hegemonic language, language shift, and the emergence of communal norms. The presentation in the chapter is generally grounded in population movements and changing population structures, therefore in speakers'/signers’ social history. It is also diachronic, explaining how domains of interest have evolved and expanded in language contact as a research area since the late nineteenth century, focusing on phenomena not elaborated in the chapters of Volume 1.

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population structurecommunal normsinterlanguagemultilingual(ism)plurilingual(ism)bilingual(ism)monolingual(ism)(language) shiftsuper-diversitycodeswitchingtranslanguagingstylect
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Volume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure
 , pp. 3 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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