Linguistic Alternants and Code Selection in Baba Malay.

Pakir, Anne

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Publication Date: 1989

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Linguistic Alternants and Code Selection in Baba Malay.

Pakir, Anne

World Englishes, v8 n3 p379-88 Win 1989

Provides a brief account and explanation of the phenomenon of language use among the Baba community, which uses Hokkien, Malay, and English in the process of code selection and code mixing/switching. Data are drawn from recordings of conversation of the Babas and Nyonyas. (Author/OD)

Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Malay, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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Identifiers - Location: Singapore

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