[lg policy] Bibitem: New Book: Language Planning and Shift in Malaysian Minority Communities. Edited collection.

[Gareth Price]

Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David (Eds.) 2011. National
Language Planning & Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities:
Speaking in Many Tongues. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
200pp.

Malaysia is a melting pot of many different cultures and ethnicities,
the three largest being Malay, Chinese and Indian. An analysis of
language variation in this polyglot nation will help in understanding
the reasons for the choice of languages used by different ethnic
groups and National Language Planning & Language Shifts in Malaysian
Minority Communities: Speaking in Many Tongues gathers the
work of researchers studying language change in Malaysia for over
two decades.

As there is no book published internationally on the
language policy in Malaysia and on the effects of language change
on urban migrant populations, this book is a timely contribution not
only to an understanding of Malaysian linguistic pluralism and its
undercurrents, but also to an understanding of the Indian Diaspora.

Dipika Mukherjee is professor of linguistics at the Shanghai International
Studies University.

Maya Khemlani David is professor of linguistics at the University
of Malaya.

-- 
Dr. Gareth Price
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
316 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
USA
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