Publications

Publication details [#32417]

Govindasamy, Subra and Mohana Nambiar. 2003. Social networks: applicability to minority communities in multilingual settings. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 161 : 25–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | minority | multilingualism | social network

Language as a subject

English | Malayalam

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study explores to what extent Western constructs such as social networks are applicable to minority, immigrant communities like the Malayalees in the multilingual Malaysian context.