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For many humans, bilinguality is a fact of life. It has been estimated that there are over 6,000 languages spoken in the 193 countries of the world (Anderson, 2005). Given that there are 30 times the number of languages than there are nation states to house them (Sadlak, 2000; Valdes, 2005), it follows that persons in many nations must negotiate their daily interactions with others in multiple languages. Indeed, it has been estimated that approximately two-thirds of the world’s population is bi- or multilingual (Sadlak, 2000).
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© 2007 Richard Clément, Kimberly A. Noels and Peter D. Macintyre
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Clément, R., Noels, K.A., Macintyre, P.D. (2007). Three Variations on the Social Psychology of Bilinguality: Context Effects in Motivation, Usage and Identity. In: Ann, W., Bernadette, M.W., Cindy, G. (eds) Language, Discourse and Social Psychology. Palgrave Advances in Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206168_3
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