Publications

Publication details [#42237]

McNamara, T.F. 1987. Language and social identity: Israelis abroad. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 6 (3-4) : 215–228.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language attitude | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines whether social identity theory can account for language attitudes, language maintenance and language shift within an Israeli native Hebrew speaking group of immigrants to Melbourne and their children.