Multilingualism and Language Contact in Signing Communities

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David Quinto-Pozos and

Robert Adam

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Salikoko Mufwene and

Anna Maria Escobar

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Salikoko Mufwene: Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Anna Maria Escobar: Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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This chapter has three main objectives. This chapter first describes multilingualism as a natural force, deeply rooted in Asian and African societies prior to the emergence of nation-states and currently flourishing and evolving in India. Parts 2– 4 of this chapter provide evidence from pre-colonial India and its neighboring countries to underscore the differential evolution of Indian and Chinese political multilingualism in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The chapter closes by investigating the dynamics of linguistic, non-linguistic, and cultural forces in Southeast Asia and China, forces that shaped, sustained, and spread pre-and post-fifteenth-century Indian multilingualism in and outside India. Super-diversity is a key marker of Ancient as well as Modern India. This region represents a microcosm of different languages, races, religions, and cultures that have blended and brought about a special unity in diversity. The chapter shows that sustainable and stable Indian multilingualism defies the conventional belief that multilingualism cannot survive or flourish without a writing system and/or government intervention. Salient linguistic and ecological features are identified to highlight the exceptional nature of Indian multilingualism and its spread to Southeast Asia and China.

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signed language writing multilingualism code-switching lexical borrowing translanguaging mouthing fingerspelling creolization endangerment

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Volume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure
, pp. 172 - 200

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