TY - BOOK ID - 19333321 TI - National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities AU - Alagappar, Ponmalar N AU - David, Maya Khemlani AU - Dealwis, Caesar AU - Dumanig, Francisco Perlas AU - Jan, Jariah Mohd AU - Khan, Mahmud Hasan AU - Kärchner-Ober, Renate AU - Mukherjee, Dipika AU - Nambiar, Mohana AU - Sankar, Lokasundari Vijaya AU - Ting, Su-Hie AU - Pillai, Stefanie PY - 2011 SN - 9089642714 9048513383 9789048513383 9789089642714 PB - Amsterdam DB - UniCat KW - Language planning -- Malaysia. KW - Malaysia -- Languages. KW - Austronesian, Papuan & Australian Languages & Literatures KW - Planned language change KW - Language planning KW - Malaysia KW - Languages. KW - Language and languages KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Planning KW - taal KW - language KW - Bengali language KW - Bidayuh KW - Kuching KW - Malay language KW - Malays (ethnic group) KW - Malaysian language KW - Sarawak KW - Sindhis KW - Tamil language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19333321 AB - Malaysia has long been a melting pot of various cultures and ethnicities, including the three largest populations, the Malay, Chinese, and Indians. Despite this, efforts to implement multilingualism, advocated by language educators and policy makers, have been marred by political and religious affiliations. Drawing on two decades of field research, this timely analysis of language variation in Malaysia is an important contribution to the understanding not only of linguistic pluralism in the country, but also of the Indian Diaspora, and of the effects of language change on urban migrant populations. The research presented here will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian and South Asian Studies. ER -