Three generations, two languages, one family: language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain

Three Generations, Two Languages, One Fa

📁 Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family: Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in Britain (Multilingual Matters)

✍ Li Wei 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Multilingual Matters, Ltd. 🌐 English

This book offers a sociolinguistic study of the Chinese community in Britain. It focuses on generational changes in language choice and code-switching patterns of Chinese immigrant families. The "social network" model developed in the study is intended to account for the relationship between communi

One Country, Two Systems, Three Language

📁 One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong (Current Issues in Language and Society)

✍ Sue Wright 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Multilingual Matters, Ltd. 🌐 English

Contains a set of papers and debates derived from a conference that took place in Hong Kong in 1996. Analyzes the patterns of language use that prevailed in mid 1996 and assesses the linguistic changes that might accompany the political shift. DLC: Sociolinguistics - Hong Kong.

One Country, Two Systems, Three Language

📁 One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong (Current Issues in Language and Society (Unnumbered).)

✍ Sue Wright, Helen Kelly-Holmes 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Multilingual Matters 🌐 English

Contains a set of papers and debates derived from a conference that took place in Hong Kong in 1996. Analyzes the patterns of language use that prevailed in mid 1996 and assesses the linguistic changes that might accompany the political shift. DLC: Sociolinguistics - Hong Kong.

National Language Planning and Language

📁 National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities: Speaking in Many Tongues

✍ Dipika Mukherjee, Maya Khemlani David 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Amsterdam University Press 🌐 English

Malaysia has long been a melting pot of various cultures and ethnicities, including the three largest populations, the Malay, Chinese, and Indians. Despite this, efforts to implement multilingualism, advocated by language educators and policy makers, have been marred by political and religious affil

National Language Planning and Language

📁 National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities: Speaking in Many Tongues

✍ Dipika Mukherjee (editor); Maya Khemlani David (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Amsterdam University Press 🌐 English

<p>Malaysia has long been a melting pot of various cultures and ethnicities, including the three largest populations, the Malay, Chinese, and Indians. Despite this, efforts to implement multilingualism, advocated by language educators and policy makers, have been marred by political and religious af

Language, Culture and Identity in Two Ch

📁 Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools: More than One Way of Being Chinese?

✍ Sara Ganassin 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Channel View Publications / Multilingual Matters 🌐 English

This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in Britain as an intercultural space for those involved. To understand