A Case Study on Management of Language Choice by Multilingual in Japan

Akiko, Kudo

This study covers a survey of (1) whether a multilingual interlocutor responds in a languagesimilar to that another multilingual initiates discourses in ; (2) whether linguistic recency and linguistic distance will affect the choice of a language. The data in this case study was collected from three multilingual individuals , all were Indian males, engaged in a free format conversation session. We assessed self-assessment of linguistic distance and frequency of linguistic recency after the session. The results show the correlation of matching rate of input and output language may be a pattern of behaviors of multilingual. The result indicates the possibility that if a non-verbal language1 is increased, then the matching rate of initiation language and response language is reduced in terms of choice of a language.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/900117062/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/900117062/no.12_129_141.pdf

千葉大学大学院社会文化科学研究科

紀要論文

1342-8403

AA11143832

千葉大学社会文化科学研究

12

129

141

2006-03-15

publisher

千葉大学人文公共学研究論集 (ONLINE ISSN 2436-4231)