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Publication details [#58519]

Saxena, Mukul. 2014. “Critical diglossia” and “lifestyle diglossia”: development and the interaction between multilingualism, cultural diversity and English. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 225 : 91–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language shift | multiculturalism | multilingualism | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Southeast Asia

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Using data from an ethnographic study on macro- and micro-sociolinguistic matters in a Southeast Asian nation state, this paper reconceptualizes classic into critical diglossia and proposes a lifestyle diglossia concept to re-assess diglossia's role in language shift and attrition research, especially as regards the role of English in national development and 21st century globalization.