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Bilingualism: Colonialism and Postcolonialism

  • Stroud C
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2007), 25-49
DOI: 10.1057/9780230596047_2
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In this chapter, I will explore the idea of bilingualism as a social construct by arguing that shifting notions of bilingualism are at base the outcome of competition among institutions, groups and individuals around questions of citizenship, language and the state....

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Stroud, C. (2007). Bilingualism: Colonialism and Postcolonialism. In Bilingualism: A Social Approach (pp. 25–49). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596047_2

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