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Dorjee, Tenzin; Giles, Howard; Barker, Valerie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Diasporic communities around the world regularly encounter challenges of preserving their identities and communication practices while adapting to their host social-cultural environment. Grounded in communication accommodation theory (CAT) and informed by recent research on deviance, this study investigated the relationships between Tibetan…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Linguistic Theory
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Giles, Howard; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
Explores several models of cognitive and structural perspectives involving minority-language situations, and attempts to integrate them into a framework of predictive propositions that elaborate psychosocial climates of maintenance, majority-minority encounter, and interactive strategies. (65 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Linguistic Theory