Socjo- i psycholingwistyczne czynniki wielojęzyczności (analiza zachowań językowych młodego pokolenia Polaków na Litwie)
Socio- and psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism (analysis of the linguistic behaviour of the young generation of Poles in Lithuania)

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses a recent sociolinguistic study on the linguistic awareness of Polish youthfrom Lithuania, carried out in schools of the Polish national minority in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2018.The study involves an analysis and comparison of responses about nationality, mother tongue, situa-tional usage (interactive language use, non-interactive exposure, inner language) as well as know-ledge of particular languages. Almost all Poles from Vilnius claim that they understand Russian,Lithuanian and Polish. The findings of the study are discussed in the context of the uniqueness ofmultilingualism and simultaneous usage of several languages. The research shows that the declara-tion of the mother tongue is a choice of identity in a multilingual society. At the end of school educa-tion, multilingual Poles are users of the Lithuanian language at the level of their native language.

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