This monograph attempts to explore the notion of pluricentric languages in relation to language maintenance and shift in an immigrant situation (Australia). The three languages selected (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese) are all pluri-centric in different ways and are all languages of international significance. Analysis of the differences in language maintenance processes and patterns between the three languages, and between the different subgroups within the relevant communities, help pinpoint some of the basic factors in language maintenance as well as some of the more ambivalent or variable factors. It has also been possible to consider to what extent the language gives rise to communities based on language rather than national origins. Among the findings of the study is the significance of the major immigration vintage of the group on language maintenance attitudes and practices. This partly reflects changing policies and attitudes in mainstream Australian society. The book will be an important source for sociolinguists, political scientists and those who are working in the fields of applied linguistics and ethnic relations.
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Australia is a country of diversity in its landscape, in its climate and in its people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first generation informants, language maintenance institutions, mosque attenders, informants over the age, temple attenders, pluricentric languages, community language group, second generation informants, birthplace groups, cent arriving, social language use, reversing language shift, younger informants, language maintenance efforts, language use patterns, home language use, group first generation, group second generation, ethnic schools, television scheduling, more informants, same language group, communication with friends, national language policy, older informants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Egypt Lebanon, Latin America, New South Wales, World War, Bureau of Immigration, Male Female, Middle East, South Australia, Victorian School of Languages, United States, Both Chinese-speaking, Chile Spain Chile Spain Spanish, Federation of Chinese Associations, National Policy, Arab League, Both Arabic-speaking, Both Spanish-speaking, Castilian Spanish, Glen Eira, Lebanese Muslims, More Taiwan, Radio Table, Spanish Spanish, Television Table New!
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Australia is a country of diversity in its landscape, in its climate and in its people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first generation informants, language maintenance institutions, mosque attenders, informants over the age, temple attenders, pluricentric languages, community language group, second generation informants, birthplace groups, cent arriving, social language use, reversing language shift, younger informants, language maintenance efforts, language use patterns, home language use, group first generation, group second generation, ethnic schools, television scheduling, more informants, same language group, communication with friends, national language policy, older informants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Egypt Lebanon, Latin America, New South Wales, World War, Bureau of Immigration, Male Female, Middle East, South Australia, Victorian School of Languages, United States, Both Chinese-speaking, Chile Spain Chile Spain Spanish, Federation of Chinese Associations, National Policy, Arab League, Both Arabic-speaking, Both Spanish-speaking, Castilian Spanish, Glen Eira, Lebanese Muslims, More Taiwan, Radio Table, Spanish Spanish, Television Table New!
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- Power in Family Discourse (Contributions to the Sociology of Language) by Richard J. Watts in Back Matter
- Symbolic Values of Foreign Use: From the Japanese Case to a General Sociolinguistic Perspective (Contributions to Sociology of Language) by Harald Haarmann in Back Matter
- Toward Non-essentialist Sociolinguistics (Contributions to the Sociology of Language) by Karol Janicki in Back Matter
- Human Relations by Marie Dalton in Back Matter
- Queen Victoria (Profiles) by Lesley Young on page 73
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- Language Change in East Asia by T. E. McAuley on page 136
- The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown: A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity (Studies in Asian Americans) by Erika A. Muse in Back Matter
- Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series) by Wanning Sun in Back Matter
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