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LANGUAGE CHOICE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES - Coggle Diagram
LANGUAGE CHOICE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES
Multilingual community
A community that uses more than a language among themselves for the purpose of communication
Choosing a code
Kind of system that two or more people employ for communication
Accents, styles, dialects and languages
A person might use a different code when they talk to different people
Setting, participants, function and topic
Linguistic repertoire
Available options of varieties that are available for use in different social contexts
Domain
Interactions between participants in setting
Family, friendship, education, religion
Example
Friendship interaction involves: Participants (friends), setting (university), topic (discussion about an assignment)
Diglossia
Pattern of code or variety choice
The situation in which two distinct varieties/languages of a language spoken within the same speech community
There are a high variety (H) and Low variety (L)
Example
-Newspaper (H) -Conversation between friends (L)
No one uses the H variety in everyday conversation
Polyglossia
There are more than two codes available in a community
Example
In Singapore where a girl can speak a dialect of Chinese to her mom; speak English with her friends; speak Mandarin with the shopkeeper at the market
Code-Switch
Somene uses one language at one moment and then switch to another in complete sentence
Example
Hoy tengo la cabeza loca, ayer fue de party all night long
Code-mix
A situation where someone inserts phrases or words in another language
Example
Ellos siempre dicen "I love you"
Lexical Borrowing
A situation where someone inserts a word in another language
Example
Nayeli es muy cute