Language Choice in Multilingual Communities

Introduction

1. Monolingualism: the ability to use a single language code very common in many parts of the Western world.
2. Bilingualism and Multilingualism are normal in most of cultures in the world (e.g. East, Asia) 

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Code Switching and Code Mixing-Sociolinguistics Study

Code-Switching
Code-switching is changing event from one code to another. For example, at first someone uses Indonesian language, and then he/she switches into Javanese. This event manifests in switch of regional, social, style and register variants. In code-switching, the use of two or more languages is marked by:

    (a) Each language still supports its own functions based on the contexts;
    (b) Each language function is based on relevant situation with contexts change.

Introduction to Universal Grammar-Chomsky Universal Grammar and Psycholinguistics

Chomsky’s Generative Grammar

Since 1960, a school thought of Linguistics is predominated by (transformational) generative grammar. He thought that a set of grammar rules is generated by a machine. The founding father of generative grammar – Noam Chomsky – is the most important figure in seeing the relation between linguistics and psychology.