Language Maintenance and Shift in One Semai Community in Peninsular Malaysia
Title | Language Maintenance and Shift in One Semai Community in Peninsular Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Florence Boucher-Yip |
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Release | 2004 |
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Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Semai in Malaysia
Title | Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Semai in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Boucher-Yip |
Publisher | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Pages | 216 |
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.
Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia
Title | Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian Community in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Hanan Aldoukhi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 160 |
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ISBN | 9819996430 |
Research Mosaics of Language Studies in Asia Differences and Diversity (Penerbit USM)
Title | Research Mosaics of Language Studies in Asia Differences and Diversity (Penerbit USM) PDF eBook |
Author | Salasiah Che Lah |
Publisher | Penerbit USM |
Pages | 513 |
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Genre | Education |
ISBN | 967461379X |
This book gives readers a present and critical view of different language and linguistic issues in selected Asian contexts. The language aspect of the manuscript explores various areas of English language learning and teaching while the linguistic aspect looks at different fields such as sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, corpus-based studies, translation studies and cultural studies. These aspects also provide distinct tangents in researching language for they offer significant points of view and outcomes in understanding the influence and/or the function of cultures when dealing with either spoken or written discourses involving native or non-native speakers. Such dynamics are instrumental in bringing about wider range of topics pertinent to the transdisciplinary nature of the current research theme in this part of the world. Substantially, the major sub-disciplines included in the manuscript frame both theoretical and hands-on implications for more rigourous innovations and expansions in the respective area of investigation.
Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning
Title | Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Paul Glasgow |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2018-12-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 042984994X |
This concise collection features seven studies on agency in language policy and planning across five different national contexts. Building on themes explored in Agency in Language Policy and Planning, this volume highlights the complex relationship between agency and broader ideological discourses, integrating social theory toward contributing to and enhancing growing scholarship on language policy and planning. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in language policy and planning, language and education, critical sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Code Switching in Malaysia
Title | Code Switching in Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Khemlani David |
Publisher | DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | 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.
The Sindhis of Malaysia
Title | The Sindhis of Malaysia PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Khemlani David |
Publisher | ASEAN Academic Press Limited |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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