Sociolinguistic context matters: Exploring differences in contextual linguistic diversity in South Africa and England Wigdorowitz, Mandy Pérez Muñoz, Ana Isabel CILD-Q CLiP-Q Codeswitching Contextual linguistic diversity Lingualism status Socioeconomic status This work was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust to Mandy Wigdorowitz, and MSCA-COFUND Athenea 3i-2018 grant (754446) to Ana I. Perez: [Grant Number 754446]. Individual reports of language history, use, and proficiency are generally considered sufficient for language profiling. Yet, these variables alone neglect the contribution of contextual linguistic diversity to one’s overall language repertoire. In this study we used the Contextual Linguistic Profile Questionnaire to evaluate whether there is a difference in contextual linguistic diversity between participants across the linguistically dissimilar contexts of South Africa and England. We further assessed whether selfreported lingualism status groups (monolinguals, bilinguals, multilinguals) scored differently on contextual linguistic diversity to evaluate the utility and uniformity of categorical labels across varying contexts, and investigated how codeswitching and socio-economic status contributed to these effects. Our results demonstrated that contextual linguistic diversity differs between nations: South Africans score higher, promotion of multilingualism is dependent on socio-economic status only in England, lingualism status is not contextually comparable when measured categorically, and codeswitching accounts for linguistic features of South Africans. 2022-05-25T12:26:24Z 2022-05-25T12:26:24Z 2022-05-04 journal article Mandy Wigdorowitz, Ana I. Pérez & Ianthi M. Tsimpli (2022): Sociolinguistic context matters: Exploring differences in contextual linguistic diversity in South Africa and England, International Multilingual Research Journal, DOI: [10.1080/19313152.2022.2069416] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/74999 10.1080/19313152.2022.2069416 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/754446 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España Taylor & Francis