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Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei; Dong, Hongjie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source…
Descriptors: Retailing, African Culture, Immigrants, Metropolitan Areas
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Emerine Hicks, Rachel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
On the island of Santa Cruz in the Solomon Islands, the Engdewu language is facing imminent language shift because of the increasing use of the lingua franca Solomon Islands Pijin in the community. In this article, I argue that this language shift is occurring because of changes to the social structure in Baemawz, one of the villages where Engdewu…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Usage, Language Skill Attrition