IJSL: Language Maintenance or Language Shift: Focus on Malaysia

[Harold F. Schiffman]

 International Journal of the Sociology of Language Volume Number: 2003
Issue Number: 161 Issue Date: June 2003

Subtitle: Language Maintenance or Language Shift: Focus on Malaysia


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (IJSL)
General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman
ISSN: 0165-2516


LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE OR LANGUAGE SHIFT: FOCUS ON MALAYSIA

Issue Editor: MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID
SLSLC Editor: NANCY C. DORIAN

FROM THE CONTENTS:

MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID, IBTISAM M. H. NAJI and SHEENA KAUR
Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh
community in Malaysia?

SUBRA GOVINDASAMY and MOHANA NAMBIAR
Social networks: applicability to minority communities in multilingual
settings

MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID
The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan: reasons for language shift

ZURAIDAH MOHD DON
Kelantanese in a new ethnolinguistic environment

KAREN KOW YIP CHENG
Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case
study of a Malaysian-Chinese family

IBTISAM M. H. NAJI and MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID
Markers of ethnic identity: focus on the Malaysian Tamil community

DIPIKA MUKHERJEE
Role of women in language maintenace and language shift: focus on the
Bengali community in Malaysia

Book Review
KAMILA GHAZALI
Language Allegiance and Language Shift, by Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin


Small languages and small language communities 42
ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD
Teaching Tariana, an endangered language from Northwest Amazonia
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