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Publication details [#64527]

Singer, Ruth. 2018. A small speech community with many small languages: The role of receptive multilingualism in supporting linguistic diversity at Warruwi Community (Australia). Language & Communication 62 : 102–118.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Employing the receptive multilingual mode, Warruwi people frequently approach one other in various languages. Local viewpoints on diversity help this adaptation lack, supposed to be general in multilingual interactions. Warruwi forms a speech community as people draw on shared indexicality interpretations. Mutually making language ideologies and practices permit many small languages to prosper at Warruwi.