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Integrating the Immigrant Population into the City of Madrid (Spain): Preliminary Data about the Sociolinguistic Attitudes of the Host Community
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Sancho-Pascual, María – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The aim of this study is to find out more about how the immigrant community is being integrated socio-linguistically into the city of Madrid. It takes as its premise that integration is a bi-directional process conditioned directly by the beliefs, values and attitudes of both the immigrant and the host communities (Moreno Fernández, Francisco.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics
The Restructuring of a Speech Community on a Foreign Land: The Tianjiners in Sabah, Malaysia
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Wang, Xiaomei; Yeoh, Yin Yin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This paper focuses on the linguistic evolution of the Tianjin speech community in Sabah, Malaysia. From the perspective of restructuring of speech community, the paper integrates both micro and macro levels of language change into the analysis. Several methods were adopted in this study. Interviews were conducted with community leaders and various…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Ethnography, Language Usage, Ethnic Groups
Attitudes towards Multicultural London English: Implications for Attitude Theory and Language Planning
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Kircher, Ruth; Fox, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of attitudes towards Multicultural London English (MLE), the multiethnolect spoken in England's main metropolis. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 800 participants, including MLE speakers as well as non-MLE speakers from a wide variety of different backgrounds. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Language Shift of Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples: A Case Study of Kanakanavu and Saaroa
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Liu, Dorinda Tsai-Hsiu; Chang, Ying-Hwa; Li, Paul Jen-Kuei; Lin, Ji-Ping – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This study covers two issues: (1) the language shift process relating to two highly endangered aboriginal languages of Taiwan and (2) the correlations between some variables and their language shift. Both Kanakanavu and Saaroa peoples underwent two waves of migration: (1) a massive in-migration of another Formosan ethnic group (Bunun people) in…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Mixed Language Varieties of Migrant Adolescents and the Discourse of Hybridity.
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Hinnenkamp, Volker – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Presents a study of mixed language use within the frame of interactional sociolinguistics by looking at how adolescents of Turkish background living in Germany have developed their own patterns of bilingualism. Analyzes transcripts of Turkish-German mixed speech and shows that the switching and mixing oscillates between local sequential functions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries
Languaging among Fifth Graders: Code Switching in Conversation 501 of the Koge Project.
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Jorgensen, J. Normann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Analyzes conversation 501 from the Koge (Denmark) project for the four adolescents speakers' use of five to six different language varieties. Code choice patterns are shown to function in a range of ways. Suggests the multifaceted behavior of the Turkish-Danish adolescents is languaging, which is in principle what other human beings do.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Danish, Foreign Countries