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    Dimensions of bilingualism

    Adrian Camacho

    Language contact: people speaking different languages coming into contact with one another.

    The word ‘bilingual’ primarily describes someone with the possession of two languages. It can, however,
    also be taken to include the many people in the world who have varying degrees of proficiency in and
    interchangeably use three, four or even more languages.

    Multilingualism: It is important to recognize that a multilingual speaker uses different languages for
    different purposes and does not typically possess the same level or type of proficiency in each language.
    It can also be the possession of individuals who do not live within a multilingual country or speech
    community.

    Language is not just a system but it has a dimension of communication and social function. Language is
    a major component of the identity of a nation and an individual. Every time we say something in one
    language when we might just as easily have said it in another, we are reconnecting with people,
    situations and power configurations from our history of past interactions and imprinting on that history
    our attitudes towards the people and languages concerned. Through language choice, we maintain and
    change ethnic group boundaries and personal relationships, and construct and define ‘self’ and ‘other’
    within a broader political economy and historical context.

    What does it mean to be a bilingual?

    General definition: include people who understand a second language—in either spoken or written
    form or both— but do not necessarily speak or write it

    Common usage: to someone who can function in both languages in conversational interaction

    Bilingual language behavior

     Code switching (grammatical integration)


     Speech production depending on their profession (interpreters and translator).
     Cross modality language production (oral modality plus manual-visual modality)

    Bilingual Advantages

    Communicative Relationships.
    Extended family relationships
    Community relationships
    Transactional communication
    Language sensitivity
    Cultural Experience two or more cultures
    Economic advantage
    Cognitive Creative thinking
    advantage Greater sensitivity in communication
    Bilingualism is shaped in different ways, and it changes depending on a variety of historical, cultural,
    political, economic, environmental, linguistic, psychological and other factors.

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