Publications

Publication details [#61510]

Jan, Jie-Sheng, Ping-Yin Kuan and Arlett Lomeli. 2016. Social context, parental exogamy and Hakka language retention in Taiwan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (8) : 794–804.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language shift | marriage proposal | minority language | social context

Language as a subject

Hakka

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study employs the data gathered by the 2010 Taiwan Education Panel Survey and Beyond, to explore diminishing Hakka ethno-linguistic minority language preservation in Taiwan. Exogamy and ethnic density loss seem the main factors impeding Hakka language maintenance.