Publications

Publication details [#46049]

Vaish, Viniti. 2007. Bilingualism Without Diglossia: The Indian Community in Singapore. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10 (2) : 171–187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | diglossia | language maintenance | sociolinguistics | speech community

Language as a subject

English, Indian | Tamil

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

The Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore (SSS 2006) argues that Tamil and English speaking Indians constitute a speech community which demonstrates bilingualism without diglossia. There is a variability within fields for language use, which actually also shows signs of Tamil language maintenance.