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From Multilingualism to Bilingualism: Changes in Language Use, Language Value, and Social Mobility among Engdewu Speakers in the Solomon Islands
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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