... Polyglossia Here an interlude is needed , to introduce multilingualism , bilingualism , diglossia and polyglossia , and how these are performed in Asia . Diglossia was famously conceptualised by Ferguson ( 1959 ) to refer to " two ...

... polyglossia , to the world of the novel . This polyglossia is , of course , exemplified by the multiplicity of foreign languages heard in Lord Jim , but it is also , I believe , what is signified by the very concept of currishness , of ...

... Polyglossia or diglossia The use of different language varieties in different social contexts in the same community is a commonplace phenomenon , and has been conceptualised by sociolinguists under various terms : diglossia ( Ferguson ...

Evangelos A. Afendras, Eddie C. Y. Kuo. 3 Multilingualism , Polyglossia , and Code Selection in Singapore JOHN PLATT Sociolinguists have for some time been fascinated by the complexity ... Polyglossia, and Code Selection Singapore John Platt.

... polyglossia questions and undermines authority, and successfully erodes the system of national languages and the myth of the nation. Thanks to polyglossia two linguistic myths perish: the myth of a single language presuming to be the ...

... polyglossia and dialogized heteroglossia , could develop in antiquity , a period which was defined by himself as monoglot . The solution to this problem is the assertion that polyglossia has existed before and had sur- vived through the ...

... polyglossia . Here the decisive context is the monoglot homogeneity of late medieval Europe on the one hand , and “ the active polyglossia of the new world " on the other . Yet the invasion is of course neither so discontinuous nor so ...

... polyglossia to maintain and create ethnolinguistic dominance. Polyglossia is a situation in which more than one language is used (Holmes, 2013). It is a sociolinguistic concept where a community or individual is proficient in multiple ...