MP-Lingualism - It's not what you think.

[Bernard Spolsky]

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.
Bernard

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Hi Bernard,

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?

Hamo

On 29 Oct 2004, at 02:07, Bernard Spolsky wrote:



Which is why, following the Council of Europe, it makes more sense to speak
about plurilingual proficiency than to use the term bilingual.
Bernard

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