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Malaysian English

Language Contact and Change

by Siew Imm Tan (Author)
©2013 Thesis XVIII, 241 Pages

Summary

Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. Based on linguistic features extracted from the Malaysian English Newspaper Corpus, this study demonstrates the diverse ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. The interactions between groups of speakers who are dominant in English and those who are dominant in Malay or Chinese have resulted in wide-ranging changes in Malaysian English. Multilingual individuals who juggle several languages in their daily communications have also shaped the structure of this variety. This volume suggests that variation and change in Malaysian English are the results of both the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.

Details

Pages
XVIII, 241
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653035162
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631637005
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03516-2
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (July)
Keywords
Language variation Corpus-based approach lexical creation Group second language acquisition Language maintenance: Lexical borrowing
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. XI, 241 pp., 10 tables, 12 graphs

Biographical notes

Siew Imm Tan (Author)

Siew Imm Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include language contact, New Englishes, corpus-based lexicography, and 19th-century Singapore and Malayan English.

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