This article introduces and defines the notion lingua receptiva (LaRa) as a mode of
multilingual communication in which interactants employ a language and/or a language …

Nordiska kulturfonden Nordiska kulturfonden bildades år 1966 och fondens syfte är att ge
ekonomiskt stöd till nordiskt kultursamarbete i vid bemärkelse. I detta ingår stöd till …

To test intelligibility, a large number of tests have been developed. By means of such tests,
the degree of intelligibility can be expressed in a single number, often the percentage of …

In today's world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the bordercrossing activities
and contact between people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, which are a …

This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to many of the most interesting
areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twelve lectures, written by leading …

In the globalized world we live in today international cooperation is extremely important, but
not all Europeans can speak English very well. If the languages in question belong to the …

This paper tries to give answers for successful receptive multilingualism (RM) but also for its
failure. It is mainly based on the results of two projects, one on inter-dialectal communication …

We measured mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages in Europe.
Intelligibility was determined for all 70 language combinations using the same uniform …

Multilingualism is part of daily life for a large part of the world's population (see Chapters 2
through 5, this volume). For many people, multilingualism causes a communicative …

Receptive multilingualism (RM) refers to the communicative mode by which interlocutors use
different languages and still understand each other on the basis of the passive language …