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National language planning & language shifts in Malaysian minority communities
National language planning and language shifts in Malaysian minority communities
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations.
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.
edited by Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.