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Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. dela Cruz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As plurilingual/multilingual research advances, factors that contribute to or hinder individual's flexible language use are still underexplored. Questions such as "Why do some people identify as plurilingual and pluricultural while others do not?" and "What factors contribute to high levels of plurilingual and pluricultural…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics
Kasstan, Jonathan Richard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper explores the notion of speaker authenticity in the context of obsolescent 'Francoprovençal': a highly fragmented grouping of Romance varieties spoken in parts of France, Italy, and Switzerland by less than 1% of the total regional population. While Francoprovençal has long been losing ground to the dominant language(s) with which it is…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, French, Dialects, Interference (Language)
Goossens, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
While much research has focused on how Western schools contain or silence the increasing multilingualism of their pupils, this paper investigates how a Dutch-medium school in Brussels has decided to take a different approach by branding itself as multilingual. Based on sociolinguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it will show that teachers invested in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Institutional Characteristics, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography
Paquet-Gauthier, Myriam; Beaulieu, Suzie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
For the past three decades, momentum has gathered in favour of a multilingual turn in second language acquisition research and teaching. "Multicompetence" has been proposed to replace "nativeness" and "monolingualism" to measure L2 learners' success. This proposed shift has not made its way into L2 teaching settings.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
Vandenbroucke, Mieke – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper addresses the complex multilingual linguistic landscapes (LLs) of three strategically-chosen areas in global city Brussels by examining how language displays on public signage in these areas are used for different purposes, functions or intentions. The focus will be on meaning-construction in the post-Fordist globalised era as shaped by…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Signs, Language Planning
Martin, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Drawing inferences from both quantitative and qualitative data, this study examines the extent to which American companies tailor their Web advertising for global audiences with a particular focus on French-speaking consumers in North America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and French Polynesia. Explored from a sociolinguistic and social semiotic…
Descriptors: Advertising, Audiences, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries

Saint-Blancat, Chantal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Argues that objective conditions are always interacting with widespread "subjective definitions" to explain the variable capacities of linguistic minorities. Looks at the hypothesis formed by Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor in their theory of language in ethnic group relations as it relates to the multilingual context of the Valdotan…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Ethnic Groups, French
Ceuleers, Evy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
In Belgium and Brussels, macrocontextual features such as language policy and language legislation have a profound impact on people's language use and on the way languages are learned. In order to explain this impact, the political and economic developments that have determined the current context of learners in Brussels are discussed. Secondly, a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Multilingualism, Learning Motivation

Nelde, Peter Hans – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Using Belgium as an example, argues that a linguistic ecological viewpoint is important for the description of linguistic/ethnic contact areas in which one or more languages are in danger of dying without any apparent political decisions. It is not as important for the description of stable, diglossic, or multilingual areas or for open bilingual…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Dutch, French, German

Saint-Blancat, Chantal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Presents the data from a study of the Valdotan community in northern Italy which examined, according to Smelser's model of social and cultural change, the Valdotans' level of ethnolinguistic identification. Re-interprets this data according to Giles, Bourhis, and Taylor's theory of the interaction between the ethnolinguistic vitality and the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, French, Language Role, Minority Groups

Young, Louis; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Reviews a study examining the perceptions of ethnolinguistic vitality of German- (n=39) and French-speaking (n=35) students enrolled in a technical school in Francophone Neuchatel, Switzerland. German-speaking students perceived marginal status for German speakers in Neuchatel, whereas Francophone students elevated the perceived vitality of the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Students, Ethnolinguistics, Foreign Countries

Stevens, Paul B. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Examines the ambivalent attitude toward the major speech varieties used in Tunisia (French, Classical Arabic, and Tunisian Arabic) and seeks to show the effects of that ambivalence on language policy, especially with regard to Arabization and bilingualism. (EKN)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, French

Landry, Rodrigue; Allard, Real – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Part of a larger project on ethnolinguistic vitality and bilingual development, this study compares anglophones and francophones on their linguistic contacts in French and English, linguistic proficiency, vitality beliefs, ethnolinguistic identities, and social language use. The assimilation process is attributed to low schooling and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English, Ethnicity

Kapanga, Andre Mwamba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The cross-cultural use of French in francophone Africa has resulted in creative linguistic and stylistic modifications reflecting the sensibilities, inherited cultural patterns, and disposition of its users. French is acquired in the sociocultural context of Africa and not the Christian, Franco-European intellectual milieu. Readers of literary…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
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