Publications

Publication details [#46166]

Hassall, Tim, Elisabet Titik Murtisari, Christine Donnelly and Jeff Wood. 2007. Attitudes to western loanwords in Indonesian. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 189 : 55–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | education | language attitude | language proficiency | loanword

Language as a subject

Dutch | English | Indonesian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study demonstrates that that young highly educated Indonesians strongly like and accept western loanwords and discusses various factors influencing these positive attitudes.