Maya Khemlani David
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maya Khemlani David plays a role.
Articles
2017. Language shift or maintenance: The case of the Sindhi language in Pakistan. Language Problems and Language Planning 41:1, pp. 26–45
Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more… read more | Article
2017. Ethnolinguistic dilemma and static maintenance syndrome: A study of language policies and language perceptions in Pakistan. Language Problems and Language Planning 41:1, pp. 66–86
Only two out of over 70 indigenous mother tongues are recognized in schools in Pakistan. This study examines orientations of the governments’ language-in-education policies, and scrutinizes the influence the policies exert on vitality of indigenous mother tongues, and the perceptions of their… read more | Article