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2003 Bernard Spolsky Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Language Policy Bernard SpolskyBar-Ilan University and the National Foreign Language Center 1 Introduction1 When I was first invited to speak at this symposium, and after I had recovered from the feelings of gratification, I started to wonder about a topic for my talk. For a while, I thought about dealing with the potential limitations caused by the word "bilingualism" in the title. What about those of us who are interested in bidialectalism, or in multilingualism, or just in the existence of multiple varieties in the sociolinguistic repertoire of societies or individuals? It struck me that this is another case wherelinguists have trouble using Language . Charles Ferguson2 made this point when drew attention to our regular difficulty with the common meaning of the name of our profession: "yes, I am a linguist, but that doesn't mean that I speak languages -- I study them.
sociolinguistics has concentrated on the second. In a loose sense, the study of bilingualism, originally focused in Leopold's classic work (1970) on linguistic aspects of the acquisition of two varieties, came to include the whole complex issue of choices between existing varieties. It …
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