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Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family: Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in Britain (Multilingual Matters, 104)
Li Wei
Paperback. Multilingual Matters Limited 1994-05.
ISBN 9781853592409
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Publisher description
This book offers a sociolinguistic study of the Chinese community in
Britain. It focuses on generational changes in language choice and
code-switching patterns of Chinese immigrant families. The "social network"
model developed in the study is intended to account for the relationship
between community norms of language use and conversational strategies of
individual speakers, and for the relation of both to the broader social,
economic and political context. Offers a sociolinguistic study of the Chinese community in Britain,
focusing on generational changes in language choice and code-switching patterns
of Chinese immigrant families.
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