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Publication details [#35788]

Pütz, Martin. 1991. Language maintenance & language shift in the speech behaviour of German-Australian migrants in Canberra. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 12 (6) : 477–492.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language maintenance | language shift | minority language | speech community

Language as a subject

English, Australian | German

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores Canberra's German speech community's use of German and/or English in various situations from a sociology of language perspective and evaluates language ecology factors affecting language maintenance or shift.