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10 - Multilingualism as Part of Social Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas
Edited by
Gail Prasad ,
Nathalie Auger  and
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Gail Prasad
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Nathalie Auger
Affiliation:
University of Montpellier
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The story of Viktorija Ceginskas is a story of interactions between different ethnicities, cultures, and languages on the borders of the Baltic States. She shows how stateless refugees may compensate for their loss of identity by strong emotional bonds with families, native countries, and languages. She shows how "language use and practices help to determine a person’s self- and externally ascribed identification by others, and provide orientation in everyday social interactions, including the recognition as a valid and represented group member with specific rights.”

Keywords

European ethnologyindividual multilingualismsocio-political issuesBaltic Statescultural borderlandcross- and intercultural family lifemultilingual socializationlingua francalanguage planningstateless refugeesforeign language classes
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Multilingualism and Education
Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives
 , pp. 84 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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