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1 online resource (210 pages)
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Language planning -- Malaysia
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Malaysia -- Languages
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Language planning ; Malaysia
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Malaysia ; Languages
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Language Policies at Variance with Language Use in Multilingual Malaysia / Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David -- 1. The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs: A Study of the Malaysian Iyers / Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar -- 2. Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching / Maya Khemlani David, Caesar Dealwis and Ponmalar N Alagappar -- 3. Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift? Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia / Maya Khemlani David and Caesar Dealwis -- 4. Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice: Heritage Language or International Language? / Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Maya Khemlani David -- 5. I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia / Stefanie Pillai and Mahmud Hasan Khan -- 6. Language and Identity: Children of Indian Bidayuh Mixed Marriages / Caesar Dealwis and Maya Khemlani David -- 7. The Impact of Language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities: Focus on the Malayalee Community in Malaysia / Mohana Nambiar -- 8. My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture: The Persistence and Adaptation of the Bengali Community in Malaysia / Dipika Mukherjee -- 9. Intercultural Communication in Sarawak: Language Use of the Chinese-Speaking Communities / Su-Hie Ting -- 10. Malay Javanese Migrants in MalaysiaContesting or Creating Identity? / Jariah Mohd Jan -- 11. Conclusions: Multilinguality in the Malaysian Context of Nation-Building and Globalisation / Renate Karchner-Ober, Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs; 2 Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching; 3 Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift?; 4 Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice; 5 I am not English but my First Language is English; 6 Language and Identity; 7 The Impact of Language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities; 8 My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture; 9 Intercultural Communication in Sarawak; 11 Conclusions; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
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