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Publication details [#32420]

Cheng, Karen Kow Yip. 2003. Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 161 : 81–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language maintenance | language shift | marriage

Language as a subject

Chinese | Malay

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines language choice and ultimately language shift and language maintenance in a mixed Malaysian-Chinese marriage, drawing on the premise presented by Harrison and Piete (1980).