1. Language contact, Multilingualism
and Applied linguistics

2.  It occurs when speakers of different
languages interact and their languages
influence each others.
 The study of language contact is called
“Contact Linguistics”

3.  The ability of societies, institutions, groups,
and individuals to engage on regular basis
with more than one language in their day to
day lives.

4.  Multilingualism
 Language Contact
“are interrelated”
 (we cannot tackle each concept on its own)
 The analysis of multilingual behavior is
tackled in relation to the linguistic and
cultural roots of the given situation.

6.  Language use
 Language user
 Language sphere

7.  Ethnic contact and conflict
 The contact between two ethnic groups occurs
between groups that have different degrees of
tensions, resentment; different points of view,
cultural backgrounds…..etc Thus, there are
some terms of one of the groups might seem
unfamiliar to the other group
 Under certain conditions, this may degenerate
into intense conflict, ending in violence .

8.  Language contact can cause political conflict.
 This can be caused when there is a contact
between two different language groups;
Canada is a good example (French and
English)
 A dominant language group (English in
Canada) controls the crucial authority in the
areas of administration, politics, and economy.
 Indeed, it gives employment preferences to
those applicants who have command of the
dominant language.

10.  There are two types of conflict:
 A conflict within an individual (interlingual
conflict)
 A conflict by means of language ( interethnic
language conflict)
 CL helps in reducing this conflict because the
rapidly developing of sociolinguistics and
sociology makes a conflict rarely happens
between groups as now they’re able to
understand one another.