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Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.com Journal Title: International Journal of the Sociology of Language Volume Number: 2003 Issue Number: 161 Issue Date: June 2003 Subtitle: Language Maintenance or Language Shift: Focus on Malaysia Main text: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (IJSL) General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman ISSN: 0165-2516 For a FREE ELECTRONIC SAMPLE COPY of IJSL and other Mouton de Gruyter journals, please visit our website at www.degruyter.com LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE OR LANGUAGE SHIFT: FOCUS ON MALAYSIA Issue Editor: MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID SLSLC Editor: NANCY C. DORIAN FROM THE CONTENTS: MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID, IBTISAM M. H. NAJI and SHEENA KAUR Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia? SUBRA GOVINDASAMY and MOHANA NAMBIAR Social networks: applicability to minority communities in multilingual settings MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan: reasons for language shift ZURAIDAH MOHD DON Kelantanese in a new ethnolinguistic environment KAREN KOW YIP CHENG Language shift and language maintenance in mixed marriages: a case study of a Malaysian-Chinese family IBTISAM M. H. NAJI and MAYA KHEMLANI DAVID Markers of ethnic identity: focus on the Malaysian Tamil community DIPIKA MUKHERJEE Role of women in language maintenace and language shift: focus on the Bengali community in Malaysia Book Review KAMILA GHAZALI Language Allegiance and Language Shift, by Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin Small languages and small language communities 42 ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD Teaching Tariana, an endangered language from Northwest Amazonia ONLINE ACCESS is now available to all institutional subscribers of the print version at no extra charge. To register for free online access, please contact us at o-journalsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedeGruyter.com for more information. To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter
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