The multilingual person in society

Half of the people of the world speak two or more languages. This paper explores the language choice from the perspective of the multilingual person. It distinguishes between the individual and private (inner world) needs of the Ll speaker and the socio-cultural (outer world) needs of the L2 speaker...

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Main Author: Carol A. Puhl
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-02-01
Series:Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning
Online Access:http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/457