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Publication details [#39932]

Smalley, William A. 1988. Thailand's hierarchy of multilingualism. Language Sciences 10 (2) : 245–261.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language policy | multilingualism | standardization

Language as a subject

Thai

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper deals with Thailand's long-standing hierarchy of multilingualism, channeling inter-language rivalry and with Government policies that help to consolidate the place of Standard Thai at the top of the hierarchy.