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Title National language planning & language shifts in Malaysian minority communities : speaking in many tongues / edited by Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations.
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Series IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 5
IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs: A Study of the Malaysian Iyers / Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar -- 2. Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching / Ponmalar N. Alagappar -- 3. Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift? Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia / Caesar Dealwis -- 4. Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice: Heritage Language or International Language? / Maya Khemlani David -- 5.I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia / Mahmud Hasan Khan -- 6. Language and Identity: Children of Indian Bidayuh Mixed Marriages / Maya Khemlani David -- 7. The Impact of language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities: Focus on the Malayalee Community in Malaysia / Mohana Nambiar.
Note continued: 8. My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture: The Persistence and Adaptation of the Bengali Community in Malaysia / Dipika Mukherjee -- 9. Intercultural Communication in Sarawak: Language Use of the Chinese-Speaking Communities / Su-Hie Ting -- 10. Malay Javanese Migrants in Malaysia: Contesting or Creating Identity? / Jariah Mohd Jan -- 11. Conclusions: Multilinguality in the Malaysian Context of Nation-Building and Globalisation / Maya Khemlani David.
Summary Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by political and religious affiliations. Malaysia is a melting pot of many different cultures and ethnicities, the three largest being Malay, Chinese and Indian. Therefore, an analysis of the language variation in this polyglot nation will help in understanding the variety of languages and those who speak them. This book gathers the work of researchers working in the field of language change in Malaysia for over two decades. As there is no book published internationally on the language policy in Malaysia and the effects on the language change in urban migrant populations, this book is a timely contribution not only to an understanding of Malaysian linguistic pluralism and its undercurrents, but also to an understanding of the Indian Diaspora.
Maleisië is een smeltkroes van veel verschillende culturen en bevolkingsgroepen, waarvan Maleisiërs, Chinezen en Indiase immigranten de drie belangrijkste groepen vormen. Ondanks diverse pogingen van de overheid om meertaligheid te bevorderen, bestaan in Maleisië nog steeds controverses als het gaat om taal- en educatiebeleid. Bovendien beïnvloedt de politieke en religieuze samenstelling de uitvoering. Dit boek is het enige internationaal gepubliceerde onderzoek naar taalbeleid in Maleisië en de gevolgen van taalverandering in stedelijke migrantenpopulaties.
Language In English.
Subject Malaysia -- Languages.
Language planning -- Malaysia.
Malaisie -- Langues.
Aménagement linguistique -- Malaisie.
Language.
Language: reference and general.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Language and languages
Language planning
Malaysia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqfKJqbTdKPv6g8b3Hpyd
Indexed Term Language
Taal
Added Author Mukherjee, Dipika, 1965-
David, Maya Khemlani.
Added Title National language planning and language shifts in Malaysian minority communities
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: 9789089642714 9089642714 (DLC) 2011474359
ISBN 9048513383 (electronic bk.)
9789048513383 (electronic bk.)
9789089642714
9089642714
Standard No. 10.1515/9789048513383. doi
DEBBG BV043107960
DEBSZ 421210303
GBVCP 1003760570

 
    
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