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National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities : Speaking in Many Tongues /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | IIAS Publications
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789048513383 9783110700671 9783110606515 9783111023786 9783110662788 9783110649772 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |