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Publication details [#58444]

Pillai, Stefanie, Wen-Yi Soh and Angela S. Kajita. 2014. Family language policy and heritage language maintenance of Malacca Portuguese Creole. Language & Communication 37 : 75–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family role | identity negotiation | language and culture | language maintenance | language policy

Language as a subject

Creole, Portuguese, Malacca

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Using Spolsky’s (2004) language policy model, this study explores two areas of family language policy (FLP), namely language ideology and language practice, with respect to the threatened Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) language. Despite a general perception of MPC constituting an ethnic and cultural identity marker for Malacca's Portuguese Eurasians, this is not directly transferred into its circulation within the family.