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<DIV><SPAN class=593224903-29102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
follow the habit of using plurilingualism for individuals and multilingualism
for societies. In the real world, these refer to complex patterns of
language choice in societies (uneven distributions throughout the
sociolinguistic ecology) and related but equally uneven mixtures of
proficiencies among the speakers. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Bernard</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>hsmr@pacific.net.hk<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 29, 2004 2:45
AM<BR><B>To:</B> lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B>
MP-Lingualism - It's not what you think.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi
Bernard,<BR><BR>Nice to here from you again. May I assume from what you wrote
that plurilingualism refers to what many might call multilingualism, but with
varying levels of proficiency in each language?<BR><BR>Hamo<BR><BR>On 29 Oct
2004, at 02:07, Bernard Spolsky wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFE><?smaller>Which
is why, following the Council of Europe, it makes more sense to speak about
plurilingual proficiency than to use the term bilingual.<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFE><?smaller>Bernard<?/smaller><?/color><?/fontfamily></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>