National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities

Dipika Mukherjee is professor of linguistics at the Shanghai International Studies University. Maya Khemlani David is professor of linguistics at the University of Malaya in Malaysia.

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Dipika Mukherjee is professor of linguistics at the Shanghai International Studies University. Maya Khemlani David is professor of linguistics at the University of Malaya in Malaysia.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Language Policies at Variance with Language Use in Multilingual Malaysia
Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David

1. The Importance of Ethnic Identity when Language Shift Occurs: A Study of the Malaysians Iyers
   Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar
2. Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching
   Maya Khemlani David, Caesar Dealwis and Ponmalar N Alagappar
3. Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift? Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia
   Maya Khemlani David and Caesar Dealwis
4. Malaysian-Filipino Couples and Language Choice: Heritage Language or International Language?
   Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Maya Khemlani David
5. I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia
   Stefanie Pillai and Mahmud Hasan Khan
6. Language and Identity: Children of Indian Bidayuh Mixed Marriages
   Caesar Dealwis and Maya Khemlani David
7. The Impact of Language Policy on Language Shifts in Minority Communities: Focus on the Malayalee Community in Malaysia
   Mohana Nambiar
8. My Son has to maintain his Language because that is his Culture: The Persistence and Adaptation of the Bengali Community in Malaysia
   Dipika Mukherjee
9. Intercultural Communication in Sarawak: Language Use of the Chinese-Speaking Communities
   Su-Hie Ting
10. Malay Javanese Migrants in Malaysia: Contesting or Creating Identity?
    Jariah Mohd Jan

11. Conclusions: Multilinguality in the Malaysian Context of Nation-Building and Globalisation
    Renate Kärchner-Ober, Dipika Mukherjee and Maya Khemlani David

    Contributors
    Bibliography
    Index