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The impact of bilingualism (Portuguese/German), the production of Mehrraum

What is it about?

Which role does bilingualism play in constructing children's identities? This paper represent a work in progress and is submitted as a contribution to a wider ongoing project of developing the concept of "Mehrraum" as an added value or an extended space that enable us to understand interactions between languages, cultures and societies.

Why is it important?

Mehrraum can be defined as extended social, psychological, physical and intelectual space produced and reproduced continuously through dialogic processes of recombination of languages, cultural references and experiences, and as outflow of immigrants pluralistic rationality of actions and survival strategies.

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