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...The topic of this chapter is the linguistic ecology of multilingualism in the Sahel. Based on the premise that named languages are social and often colonial constructs, the chapter focuses on the speaker-centered notion of linguistic repertoire and the ways in which Sahelians use their linguistic...

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... the linguistic repertoires of individuals. Linguistic diversity is not only widely ignored but also stratified. This means that repertoires are ordered hierarchically and only the repertoires of subordinate speakers come to be seen as diverse. Diversity discourses often conceal inequality. The chapter also...

..., and multilingualism is embedded in social, cultural, spiritual, and economic life. Linguistic repertoires are typically highly complex, and deployed in diverse ways from community to community. This chapter explores the shape and function of multilingual practices in Aboriginal Australia by considering the nature...

... and their African American counterparts. The results of this research point to a similar linguistic repertoire for both groups of Black New Yorkers, with subtleties evident at the quantitative level. While both groups are quite /r/-ful, Caribbean American-identified Blacks have higher rates of /r/-fulness than...

...This chapter presents a discussion on the role of English in the linguistic repertoires of the second generation of onward-migrating families from Italy to the UK. Participants reported on their language use, language maintenance, and language attitudes, both in their early life in Italy...

... the ecology in general. Even as Nynorsk is not merely the instrument but also the expression of Norwegian nativism, for example, so it contributes to the shape of Norway’s linguistic repertoire and to the 131 social significances particular varieties can have within it. Almost perversely, this kind...

... and languages are at the heart of how societies adjust their linguistic repertoires. As expounded in the previous chapters, trade, religion, nation-building, colonialism, migration, and technology impact the spatial and temporal dynamics of how people communicate, what languages they use, how they use them...