REVIEW ARTICLE: Trends in Indian Bilingualism  

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Hasnain, S. Imtiaz

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 2 (1991), page 301-316.
Fulltext: 13_02_Hasnain.pdf (992.2KB)

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This review article surveys the available literature dealing with language maintenance and language shift with a view to highlighting the state of art of Indian Bilingualism. It has been observed that there exists a complex pattern of language behaviour depicting both the language shift even after centuries of steady bilingualism and the language maintenance in spite of linguistic convergence and assimilation, thus depriving any description of bilingualism of a dependable predictive force regarding future social behaviour. Along with the description of bilingualism. the factors leading to language maintenance and language shift have also been discussed here. “To the average person in the United States or Europe bilingualism - the regular use of two or more languages - is a rather special language phenomenon restricted to a few countries. where, presumably, every citizen is bilingual. This average person would say that very few people in the world are bilingual or multilingual; the majority is monolingual, that is, uses only one language on a regular basis” (Grosjean 1982: 1).

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