A procedure establishing perfect multilingualism in a community

Abstract

This paper attempts to provide a procedure establishing perfect multilingualism. Apart from the two items related to gender and age, the author uses ten items based on socio-psycholinguistic parameters, namely the speaker’s emotional expression languages and easier languages. An illustrative study consisting of a survey and a semi-structured interview show how the procedure is implemented. The results reveal that the twenty respondents of the Department of English, Business and Computer Science of the university of Kinshasa have French and Lingala as perfect mother tongues and most of them speak Kinshasa Lingala native like.

Keywords

• equal competence
• emotional expression
• easier languages
• perfect multilingualism
• multilingual and language
• individual multilingualism
• societal multilingualism