King's College London

Instead of seeing multilingualism as a plurality of ‘named languages’, this sociolinguistics briefing note argues that we should approach it as:
• a repertoire of styles and linguistic resources, tuned to particular communicative settings and spheres of life, developed over the course of a person’s biographical experience.
• Superdiversity makes the relationships between language and identity more unpredictable, but there are still socio-linguistic structures that guide the ways we talk.