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Publication details [#57592]

Han, Huamei. 2013. Unintended language maintenance: the English Congregation of a Baptist Chinese church in Western Canada. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (222) : 101–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | church | language maintenance | religion | socialization

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, Canadian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how the foundation of an English youth congregation in response to language shift in a Baptist Chinese church in Western Canada, in fact eased Chinese minority language maintenance.