This paper studies the situated meaning given to a so-called "welcome" service for international students at a Catalan university. The official business of the service is to offer support with bureaucratic procedures and information about available services, including those for learning Catalan. However, the complex range of overlapping…

Considers social and psychological factors in the language choice of bilingual children and adults. Evidence is cited in two main sectons: (1) the way bilingual children use language to influence those around them, and (2) survey of the language choices made by bilingual mothers who choose to rear monolingual English children. (Author/PJM)