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Skipants ? Bilingual VS monolingual ? Bilingual means the habitual use of two languages. ? Overseas Chinese are often confronted with a hard choice between Bilingual and monolingual. The Speech ? The what is the phenomenon of bilingualism among minority groups living in this country. ? The reason why Chinese parents should want their children to be bilingual. ? How to help children bee bilingual. ? Suggestions given to bilinguals: 1) beware the tyranny of interpersonal languagepatterns. 2)Look out for the fixity of intergroup languagepatterns. 3) Eschew skipants. 4)Chinese is the major consideration. Standard Chinese is secondary. 5) Speech is more basic than writing. Activity 3 Language and politics ? There are two features that are characteristic of the language during the Cultural Revolution: Feature one, red guards wrote big character posters Feature two, everything was politicalized and also polarized in terms of lifeordeath class struggle. 。 ? use special lexis (. of colour)。 ? are poor at recounting jokes (this is a subjective judgement unless it is related to objective language data, generally agreed to be important in joketelling what are these?)。 ? use redundant qualifiers (just [adv.] charming, divine, sweet, adorable [adj.])。