Publications

Publication details [#33110]

Nagai, Yasuko and Ronah Lister. 2003. What is Our Culture? What is Our Language? Dialogue Towards the Maintenance of Indigenous Culture and Language in Papua New Guinea. Language & Education 17 (2) : 87–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language and culture | language dominance | language maintenance

Language as a subject

Languages, Papuan

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0950-0782

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses the efforts of three local elementary school teachers in the Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) to help various indigenous groups to maintain their traditional culture and language, often dominated by Western culture, especially via the globalisation of English.