Multilingualism of Shanghai Indigenous Residents

Mental health literacy among residents in Shanghai

BACKGROUND The recent adoption of China's new national mental health law provides a good opportunity to obtain baseline information about community mental health literacy in the country. AIM Assess knowledge and attitudes about mental disorders among residents in Shanghai. METHODS A total of 1953 residents aged 15 or above selected from all 19 districts in Shanghai completed two self-report...

Multilingualism on the Internet

According to a September 2004 compilation (Almanac 2004), the number of the world’s population now online is approaching an extraordinary one billion. Fifteen countries account for about 70% of the total individuals online today. The United States has the largest single proportion online of any country, or 20% of the total. This reflects not merely its relatively large population size and advan...

Editorial: The Grammar of Multilingualism

Generative linguistics is primarily concerned with providing formal models of the linguistic competence of human beings. The goal is to adequately characterize and explain the structures of the grammar that each individual has constructed in his/her mind. This involves providing a formal description of the possible structures, which at the same time also rules out structures that do not occur. ...

Multilingualism, empathy and multicompetence

The dynamics of multilingualism in contemporary Singapore

Historically, Singapore was home to a heterogeneous and highly multilingual population from across the Asian region and elsewhere in the world. In contrast with its historical past, or even the early days of the post-colonial period, Singapore’s earlier diverse and linguistically heterogeneous society has evolved into a multi-ethnic nation state, with four official languages, of which three are...