Informatologia, Vol. 49 No. 1-2, 2016.
Professional paper
MULTILINGUALISM AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONTACT PHENOMENON WITH REGARD TO CURRENT FORMS OF MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION; CODE-SWITCHING AS ONE OF THE CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION TRENDS
Magdalena Malechová
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Abstract
One of the basic principles of interpersonal contact in the world is language contact. Understanding the language and thoughts mediation vehicle has been subject to continuous development for decades. With the abolition of many frontiers, various limits and language barriers have been reduced. A more intense mixing of people naturally leads to a more intense mixing of languages. As such, we currently speak about the so-called multicultural society, a concept that has been gaining more and more attention. This of course is due to mutual interference of individual languages, particularly influencing the strong language by the not so strong language. Multilingualism has thus gradually become a natural trend in our globalized world and has probably been included as a natural part of social development among the logical circumstances.
Keywords
multilingualism; contact,; sociolinguistics, code-switching; borrowing
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161904
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Publication date:
15.7.2016.
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