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Diglossia and Paraguay

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Diglossia – A. Hudson

Hudson, A (1997). Diglossia. In Spolsky (Ed.), Concise encyclopedia of educational linguistics, pp. 37-42. Amsterdam: Elsevier

This article is a short description and explanation of diglossia. It is divided into three sections. In the first section, it begins with a concise description of diglossia, the sociolinguistic experience where each language has a separate function in a bilingual society. In the second section, the author gives incidences where diglossia occurs. The final section concerns the typology of diglossia. In this third section, the difference between diglossia and bilingualism is discussed. (The Paraguayan linguistic situation is mentioned in this last section.)