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id	eprints-23312
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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	This paper uncovers a particular type of multilingualism: small-scale multilingualism, meant here to designate communicative practices in heteroglossic societies in which multilingual interaction is not governed by domain specialization and hierarchical relationships of the different named languages and lects used in them, but by deeply rooted social practices within a meaningful geographic setting. These settings are mainly attested in areas of the globe that have been spared from Western settlement colonies. Their study is of great interest for advancing our understanding not just of language contact, but of the social conditions that have shaped language use and language structure for most of human history. Calling for an integrated approach combining sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, descriptivetypological and ethnographic approaches, I present a number of case studies from West Africa, Amazonia, Northern Australia and Melanesia, and typologize them according to the language ideologies governing them and their known patterns of language use.
format	Journal Article
author	Lüpke, Friederike
author_facet	Lüpke, Friederike
authorStr	Lüpke, Friederike
author_letter	Lüpke, Friederike
title	Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism
publisher	Department of German Studies, University of Arizona
publishDate	2016
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23312/