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Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and naturally-occurring interactions at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. dela Cruz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
As plurilingual/multilingual research advances, factors that contribute to or hinder individual's flexible language use are still underexplored. Questions such as "Why do some people identify as plurilingual and pluricultural while others do not?" and "What factors contribute to high levels of plurilingual and pluricultural…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics
Kroon, Sjaak; Kurvers, Jeanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This paper investigates language practices, language attitudes and identity belongings of East Timorese in the Netherlands. Data were gathered through a limited orally conducted sociolinguistic questionnaire and two in-depth interviews on the sociolinguistic trajectories of our participants. The questionnaire shows that second-generation East…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
Yan, Xi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Language choices in the economic field of late capitalist societies are shaped by a combination of local, national, and global forces as well as historical, political, and economic factors. This study conducts an analysis of language choices in the linguistic landscape of Macao's heritage tourism (i.e. signposts of tourist attractions) and gaming…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Tourism, Multilingualism
Stell, Gerald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study sheds light on the socio-economic factors determining the (re)location of sociolinguistic prestige in postcolonial environments. It uses the case of Namibia, an ethnolinguistically diverse African country that replaced Afrikaans -- an established lingua franca -- with English as its official language to weaken the hold of the formerly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
Daly, Nicola – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Picturebooks which present stories in two languages are known as dual-language picturebooks (Daly. 2016. "Linguistic Landscapes in Maori-English Parallel Dual Language Picturebooks: Domination and Interaction." "New Zealand English Journal" 29 & 30: 11-24), and the use of dual-language picturebooks has been shown to have a…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Picture Books, English, Spanish
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
Huang, Jing – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper examines diasporic language ecology based on a sociolinguistic study of a Chinese complementary school (CCS) in Birmingham, England. The study applies a historical perspective to investigate local multilingual practices in relation to language ideology and identity. The discussion in this paper draws on "heteroglossia" to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Community Schools, Heritage Education, Multilingualism
Rosowsky, Andrey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Fishman's scale for evaluating language vitality proposes a stage in language shift where exclusively the older generation takes part in "rituals", "concerts" and "songfests" in the minority language. Once this generation dies away, according to the scale, these cultural practices disappear with them. Within certain…
Descriptors: Muslims, Religious Factors, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
McKenzie, Robert M.; Kitikanan, Patchanok; Boriboon, Phaisit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Previous language attitude research indicates that presenting speech forms allows listeners to index information about and attach social meaning to the perceived group(s) of speakers. Despite the volume of research undertaken elsewhere in Asia, there appear to be no in-depth studies investigating Thai nationals' evaluations of specific varieties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Attitudes, English
Bolton, Kingsley; Botha, Werner; Bacon-Shone, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Within the Asian region, Singapore has long been seen as a leader within the field of higher education, with an unmatched record of success in implementing English-medium instruction (EMI) at all levels of education, including colleges and universities. This present study reports on a large-scale survey carried out at one of Singapore's major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language of Instruction, English
Paquet-Gauthier, Myriam; Beaulieu, Suzie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
For the past three decades, momentum has gathered in favour of a multilingual turn in second language acquisition research and teaching. "Multicompetence" has been proposed to replace "nativeness" and "monolingualism" to measure L2 learners' success. This proposed shift has not made its way into L2 teaching settings.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
Vandenbroucke, Mieke – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper addresses the complex multilingual linguistic landscapes (LLs) of three strategically-chosen areas in global city Brussels by examining how language displays on public signage in these areas are used for different purposes, functions or intentions. The focus will be on meaning-construction in the post-Fordist globalised era as shaped by…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Signs, Language Planning
Martin, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Drawing inferences from both quantitative and qualitative data, this study examines the extent to which American companies tailor their Web advertising for global audiences with a particular focus on French-speaking consumers in North America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and French Polynesia. Explored from a sociolinguistic and social semiotic…
Descriptors: Advertising, Audiences, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries

MacKinnon, Kenneth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Discusses the sociological process which results in Celtic speech communities persisting despite incorporation into the larger society of the United Kingdom. Looks at such factors as age, sex, occupation, religion, and political allegiance. Discusses the dynamics of Gaelic language maintenance in terms of Joshua Fishman's typology of diglossia and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, English, Language Attitudes