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Direct linkO'Driscoll, Jim – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper advocates a new perspective on languages. It begins by demonstrating that, the occasional disavowals of sociolinguists notwithstanding, the lens through which we in the 21st century, both specialists and laypeople, view languages is predominantly biological. It then suggests that this biological metaphor is conceptually unhelpful and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
