Publications

Publication details [#45901]

Clyne, Michael and Sue Fernandez. 2007. Tamil in Melbourne. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (3) : 169–186.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language attitude | language maintenance | language use

Language as a subject

Tamil

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper demonstrates the complexity of individual attitudes towards language maintenance amongst immigrant Tamil speakers in Melbourne, coming from Sri Lanka or India, who are Hindus or Christians.