A Comparative Study of Language Shift and Maintenance Across National Borders
by
Picus Sizhi Ding
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book presents multilingualism as a social phenomenon, which arises when speakers of a different language move to a new society and learn to speak the dominant language of the society. It offers case studies of Hokkien migrating families when they encounter new languages in Burma, Macao and San...