Publications

Publication details [#29011]

Gupta, Anthea Fraser and Siew Pui Yeok. 1995. Language shift in a Singapore family. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (4) : 301–314.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | ethnography | language choice | language shift

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This ethnographic study explores the social pressures and attitudes which led to the language shift from Cantonese to English in a Singaporean family.