Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia
Author : Hanan Aldoukhi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
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ISBN : 9819996430
Author : Hanan Aldoukhi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
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ISBN : 9819996430
Author : Esther Boucher-Yip
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 9783659302534
This study investigates the reported language use of one bilingual Semai community, a linguistic minority in Peninsular Malaysia. The Semai is the largest indigenous group in the peninsular and the language, Semai, is generally an oral language. Semai bilingual speakers are faced with choices in language behavior that will determine whether or not the Semai language will be maintained. Given the fact that the future of the Semai language depends on its actual use, this study was undertaken to examine the reported language use patterns and the factors that contribute to maintenance or shift in one Semai community. The reported language use patterns in the sample population appear to suggest a trend towards maintenance.This study concludes by positing that demographic factors, the values and attitudes of the people and religious homogeneity found in the community play an important role in the maintenance of the Semai language.
Author : Esther Florence Boucher-Yip
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Maya Khemlani David
Publisher : ASEAN Academic Press Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Anikó Hatoss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027271003
This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development can be explored. The methods combine a quantitative domain-based sociolinguistic survey with discourse analytic approaches. The novel approach is valuable for fellow researchers working in interdisciplinary fields of language maintenance, language shift, multilingualism andlanguage planning in migration contexts. The ecological perspective adds to sociolinguistic theories of globalization and responds to current dynamics of translocality in modern immigrant contexts. The research presents language use and language planning efforts in the Sudanese community of Australia. Language, culture, race and ethnic identity are explored in unique sociolinguistic contexts using an emic research lens and giving voice to the participants.
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Page : 139 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Maya Khemlani David
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Page : 139 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sociolinguistics
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Author : Maya Khemlani David
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Anthropological linguistics
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Author : Maya Khemlani David
Publisher : DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Code switching (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9783631595640
Code switching seems to be natural for most multilingual speakers because they can switch from different languages freely depending on what is available in their linguistic repertoire. This collection of studies aims to bring current Malaysian code switching and language alternation research to the attention of a worldwide readership. In so doing we attempt to follow the path taken by our late friend, colleague and mentor, Professor Rodolfo Jacobson. The approach and conceptual framework adopted by the contributors in this volume tends to focus more towards the functional rather than the purely linguistic or grammatical. Research into Malaysian code switching demonstrates the need to seek out ways of merging these approaches, rather than keeping them separate, and several of the chapters in this volume attempt such a merger of approaches and methods.
Author : Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780521397292
Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.