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National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities : Speaking in Many Tongues / ed. by Maya Khemlani David, Dipika Mukherjee.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: IIAS PublicationsPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789089642714
  • 9789048513383
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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
Summary: 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 affiliations. Drawing on two decades of field research, this timely analysis of language variation in Malaysia is an important contribution to the understanding not only of linguistic pluralism in the country, but also of the Indian Diaspora, and of the effects of language change on urban migrant populations. The research presented here will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian and South Asian Studies.
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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

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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 affiliations. Drawing on two decades of field research, this timely analysis of language variation in Malaysia is an important contribution to the understanding not only of linguistic pluralism in the country, but also of the Indian Diaspora, and of the effects of language change on urban migrant populations. The research presented here will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian and South Asian Studies.

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