Language choice multilingual communities

What is language choice multilingual communities? LANGUAGE CHOICE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES In multilingual communities, more than one language is used. It means that people living in this situation may speak more than one language. When interacting with others, they can choose a code or a variety which is appropriate with participants, topic and location. CHOOSING THE VARIETY OR CODE A person might use different code when he/she talks to different people. This choice of code is determined by several factors, such as to whom he/she is talking, the social context of the talk, and the function and topic of the discussion. variety is a sociolinguistic term referring to language in context. A variety is a set of linguistic forms used under specific social circumstances, i.e., with a distinctive social distribution. Variety is therefore a broad term which includes different accents, different linguistic styles, different dialects and even different languages which contrast with each other for social reasons. Ferguson (Chaer and Agustina, 2004:92) Using the term diglossia to express the state of a society in which there are two variations of one language that coexist and each of them has a particular interest. Diglossia is a language situation in which there is a functional division of language or language variations in society. What is meant is that there is a difference between the formal or official variety and the informal or non-formal variety. What is code mixing and code switching? Some work defines code-mixing as the placing or mixing of various linguistic units (affixes, words, phrases, clauses) from two different grammatical systems within the same sentence and speech context.