How to choose what to speak? Language practices in Malay-Chinese families in Singapore

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tan, Jo Mei Jing
• مؤلفون آخرون: Ng Bee Chin
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77096
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Studies on language shift (LS) and language maintenance (LM) in Singapore have usually focused on the trends of individual ethnic communities’ vernaculars and English (Li, Saravanan & Ng, 1997; Vaish, 2007). However, with the phenomenon of increasing interethnic marriages, it is important to...