National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities Speaking in Many Tongues
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Language Policies at Variance with Language Use in Multilingual Malaysia
- 1 The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs: A Study of the Malaysian Iyers
- 2 Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching
- 3 Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift? Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia
- 4 Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice: Heritage Language or International Language?
- 5 I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia
- 6 Language and Identity: Children of Indian Bidayuh Mixed Marriages
- 7 The Impact of Language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities: Focus on the Malayalee Community in Malaysia
- 8 My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture: The Persistence and Adaptation of the Bengali Community in Malaysia
- 9 Intercultural Communication in Sarawak: Language Use of the Chinese-Speaking Communities
- 10 Malay Javanese Migrants in Malaysia: Contesting or Creating Identity?
- 11 Conclusions: Multilinguality in the Malaysian Context of Nation-Building and Globalisation
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Publications Series
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Language Policies at Variance with Language Use in Multilingual Malaysia
- 1 The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs: A Study of the Malaysian Iyers
- 2 Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching
- 3 Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift? Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia
- 4 Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice: Heritage Language or International Language?
- 5 I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia
- 6 Language and Identity: Children of Indian Bidayuh Mixed Marriages
- 7 The Impact of Language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities: Focus on the Malayalee Community in Malaysia
- 8 My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture: The Persistence and Adaptation of the Bengali Community in Malaysia
- 9 Intercultural Communication in Sarawak: Language Use of the Chinese-Speaking Communities
- 10 Malay Javanese Migrants in Malaysia: Contesting or Creating Identity?
- 11 Conclusions: Multilinguality in the Malaysian Context of Nation-Building and Globalisation
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Publications Series
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- National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority CommunitiesSpeaking in Many Tongues, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2011