Accommodation by immigrants : the role of situational language norms

• Main Author: Ng, Trina Jia Ying
• Other Authors: Alexander Robertson Coupe
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language acquisition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62781
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study explores language accommodation in the case study of Filipino immigrant workers in the food & beverage industry of Singapore. Thirteen Filipino immigrants were observed for their interactions at their workplaces, followed by interviews for eight of them. The data revealed linguistic c...