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Direct linkDeumert, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
This paper provides an analysis of language shift from African languages to English (and Afrikaans) in South Africa, using home language data from the South African population census (1996 and 2001). Although census data have been criticised for its "essentialist" construction of language, they nevertheless provide sociolinguists with a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Maintenance, Social Class, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGonzalez, Andrew – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Provides a language profile of the Philippines based on census data and sociolinguistic and historical literature on the languages in the country. Discusses the uses of languages in various domains, especially education, and gives a historical sketch of language planning from laws enacted and revised and policies implemented. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
Peer reviewedO Riagain, Padraig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Discusses strategies of social mobility involving education, occupational or residential change, and migration as well as the implications for language behavior of these strategies. The article assesses current theories of language maintenance and shift, drawing on network concepts and referring to change in an Irish-speaking community in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Census Figures, Change Strategies, Cultural Context
