King's College London

TY - GEN

T1 - What do we mean by 'multilingual'?: Linguistic repertoires

AU - Rampton, Ben

PY - 2019/9/28

Y1 - 2019/9/28

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

M3 - Other contribution

VL - 260

T3 - Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies

CY - KCL

ER -