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What are the consequences of societal multilingualism?
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What are the consequences of societal multilingualism? In order to understand the choices that are available to speakers, we must first understand what languages and varieties are available to them, in that particular social context. The social context involves concepts such as ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, gender and social class. These are the domains in which a multilingual speaker is likely to change his/her language, according to the society in which the speaker finds his/herself. Societal multilingualism although involving positive qualities it can bring problems for the linguistic minorities that are living within a certain country, as they have to acquire a high standard of proficiency in at least two languages. Not only will they be speaking the language of their ethnic background, but they will also have to learn the language of the country they are living in. The level at which they must reach in speaking this 'native' language...
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