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Publication details [#61555]

Arunachalam, Dharma and Maria Karidakis. 2016. Shift in the use of migrant community languages in Australia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | gender | immigrant | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines trends in first generation migrant to Australia's community languages' upkeep in the pre-and post-1980 era, and socio-economic disparity as to the shift in their uses. Gender, length of and pre-1980 stay decrease upkeep, education level decreases home upkeep, and post-1980 stay, place of stay (esp. big cities) and linguistic community spread favor upkeep.