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Direct linkLi, Jian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article investigates 90 Shanghainese participants' cross-generational use and knowledge of 140 English loanwords in Shanghainese which are deemed as an important part of Shanghai Regional Culture (SRC). The quantitative results reveal that the older participants use and know much more of English loanwords than the younger ones, and that many…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Age Differences, Verbs
Coronel-Molina, Serafín M.; Samuelson, Beth L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
In this essay we examine the notions of language contact phenomena such as borrowing, codeswitching, codemixing, codemeshing, and translanguaging. We also explore the concepts of translingualism and translingual literacies. We discuss how the notions of bilingualism and multilingualism are differentiated from translingualism and translingual…
Descriptors: Literacy, Code Switching (Language), Creoles, American Indians
Rosendal, Tove; Mapunda, Gastor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Reconstructing the Past? Low German and the Creating of Regional Identity in Public Language Display
Reershemius, Gertrud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article deals with language contact between a dominant standard language--German--and a lesser-used variety--Low German--in a situation in which the minoritised language is threatened by language shift and language loss. It analyses the application of Low German in forms of public language display and the self-presentation of the community in…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Linguistic Borrowing, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPapapavlou, Andreas N.; Pavlou, Pavlos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Examines issues related to Cyprus's current sociolinguistic situation, where language is central in defining the identity of Greek Cypriots. Discusses linguistic practices of Cypriots described in various studies covering the diglossic situation in Cyprus, language and identity, attitudes toward dialect, language attitudes and how they affect…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Maintenance, Dialects
Peer reviewedPedersen, Karen Margrethe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Children from the German minority in Denmark were studied as part of a longitudinal sociolinguistic research project. Most spoke the Jutland (a Danish) dialect and picked up German as a second language when they started preschool, resulting in code-switching and interference in some cases, which appear to be manifestations of linguistic creativity…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
