Methodological and Analytical Issues in Language Maintenance and Language Shift Studies (Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft, Bd. 46.) (VOL) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820454613 ISBN 13: 9780820454610

Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The phenomenon of language maintenance and shift (LMLS) discusses how one particular language pervades the domain of another and eventually replaces that particular language. This book examines a number of methodological and analytical issues in LMLS studies. The writers discuss analytical constructs and review theoretical issues in LMLS citing studies from Borneo, Britain, Brunei, Malaysia, Mexico, and Singapore. A range of variables affecting LMLS in these sites are reviewed. The writers offer a substantial amount of systematically collected empirical data from a number of geographically diverse sites. The studies of LMLS analysed and reported here are invaluable not only to sociolinguists but also to scholars of related fields such as anthropology and communication. Contents: Analytical Constructs and Methodological Issues in LMLS Studies - Manifestations of Language Shift - Variables Affecting Language Shift.

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About the Author

Maya Khemlani David is currently Head of the Section for Co-Curricular Activities, Elective Courses by Other Faculties and TITAS (SKET), University of Malaya (Malaysia). She has published in reputable journals like the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Multilingua and has edited Language and the Power of the Media (2006, Frankfurt, Peter Lang), and Teaching of English in Second and Foreign Language Settings: Focus on Malaysia (2004, Frankfurt, Peter Lang).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820454613
• ISBN 13: 9780820454610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201
• Editor: David Maya Khemlani