Sociolinguistics

Bilingualism and Multilingualism.

Answer the following question bellow with your best answer!
1. If someone told you that pidginized varieties of a language are ‘corrupt’ and
‘ungrammatical,’ and indicated that their speakers are either ‘lazy’ or ‘inferior,’ how
might you try to show that person how wrong he or she is? What kinds of evidence
would you use?
2. Is it possible to have a society in which everyone is completely bilingual in the same
two languages and there is no diglossia? How stable would such a situation be?
3. Some communities regard bilingualism as a serious threat; it has even been referred to
as a ‘Trojan horse,’ initially attractive but ultimately fatal. Why might this be so?
(Consider the experience of migration and also the sorry state of many minority
languages in the world.)