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Publication details [#65876]

Paquet, Roseline and Catherine Levasseur. 2019. When bilingualism isn't enough: perspectives of new speakers of French on multilingualism in Montreal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (5) : 375–391.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | ethnography | foreign language acquisition | multilingualism | social class | speaker
Language as a subject
English, Canadian | French, Canadian
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Inquiry displays a plain bent towards French/English bilingual and plurilingual elitism in Montreal. This ethnographic study shows that newcomers’ plurilingual repertoire holds symbolic and material worth beyond the elite French/English bilingualism, thus defying the limits between elite and non-elite linguistic groups in Montreal.