Some PapersTerritoriality and Language Freedom: the Bridging and Barrier Function of the Principles of Territoriality and Language freedom in Multilingual Switzerland
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My interests in the interrelation of language and society have been the following: - Multilingualism, especially - models for communication in mutilingual communities like Switzerland and Europe - language repertoires of multilingual people - the politics and policies relating to the building up of such repertoires and intra-community communication - English as a language of wider communication especially - its status in various communities - its use in various types of language - Language Varieties, - their linguistic shapes and their use by various groups of speakers - the notion of "typolect" - Graffiti Language - Sexist Language - Attitudes towards language stereotypes
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