Publications

Publication details [#29010]

Gibbons, John and Lyn Ashcroft. 1995. Multiculturalism and language shift: A subjective vitality questionnaire study of Sydney Italians. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (4) : 281–299.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language maintenance | language shift | minority language | question

Language as a subject

Greek | Italian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study examines the different patterns of language shift of Italian and Greek second generation immigrants in Australia, as revealed by census data, via the subjective vitality questionnaire.