Publications

Publication details [#26337]

Wei, Li. 1994. Three generations, two languages, one family: language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain. (Multilingual Matters 104). Clevedon. viii + 221 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | language choice | language shift

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | English

Annotation

This book investigates the social mechanisms of language shift and patterns of language choice among three generations of native Chinese -particularly Cantonese- speaking inhabitants of Tyneside (UK), engaged in family-based catering trade.

Reviewed by

Li, David C.S. 1996. Review of $Three generations, two languages, one family: language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain.