id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4qsst55tojalradmelee2emhee Christina Bratt Paulston Language and ethnic boundaries 1980.0 38 .pdf application/pdf 11111 830 59 Language can similarly be used for the mailnumance Oi ethnic boundaries in order to keep memberswithin the group. In this paper, I would like to examine the phenomenon of group bilingualism, the origin of the contact situations which lead to it, and it serves a variety of functions which need to be considered for an adequate understanding of the social oansequences of group bilingualism. Not so with folk bilingualism which is the result of ethnic groups, in contact and competition within a single state, group or grows from the society-wide network of institutions and associations," and the third to "the degree of control exercised by dominant on the other hand, is an aspect of moral learning,,reaffirming the solidarity and cultural uniqueness of the ethnic group, underscoring the need Group bilingualism is frequently accompanied by language shift to 4. It should be pointed out somewhere that many members of the ethnic groups discussed in this paper do shift languages and assimr ./cache/work_4qsst55tojalradmelee2emhee.pdf ./txt/work_4qsst55tojalradmelee2emhee.txt