Publications

Publication details [#53246]

Matsumoto, Kazuko. 2010. The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau: Mechanisms of language maintenance and shift. Multilingua 29 (2) : 133–165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language maintenance | language shift | multilingualism | social network

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study argues that social network analysis constitutes a valuable tool to explore language maintenance and shift in the Western Pacific post-colonial rural multilingual island community of Palau.