ABSTRACT

This article presents an empirical analysis of patterns of individual multilingualism in Estonia based on 2015 survey results. We hypothesize that individual multilingualism is situated at the intersection of three major overlapping social factors: 1) geographic locale, the space where individuals interact daily, measurable primarily by its ethno-demographic characteristics, 2) mostly economic factors, the commodification of languages, and 3) patterns of civic participation in a particular locale. To explore patterns of multilingualism as multi-competence, we used the self-reported command of the three dominant languages and mapped this against those three factors. The article interprets and discusses the findings in light of language policy implications.

抽象的

本文基于2015年的调查结果，对爱沙尼亚的个人使用多种语言的模式进行了实证分析。我们假设个人使用多种语言位于三个主要的重叠社会因素的交汇处：1）地理区域，个人日常互动的空间，主要可以通过其种族人口统计特征来衡量； 2）主要是经济因素，语言的商品化，以及3）特定地区的公民参与模式。为了探索多种语言形式的多能力模式，我们使用了三种主要语言的自我报告命令，并将其与这三个因素相对应。本文根据语言政策的含义来解释和讨论这些发现。