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Autor/in | Kuo, Eddie C. Y. |
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Titel | Measuring Communicativity in Multilingual Societies: The Cases of Singapore and West Malaysia. |
Quelle | In: Anthropological Linguistics, 21 (1979) 7, S.328-40 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Language Maintenance; Language Patterns; Language Research; Language Usage; Language Variation; Malay; Multilingualism; Predictive Measurement; Predictor Variables; Probability; Socioeconomic Influences; Sociolinguistics; Speech Communication; Urban Language; Malaysia; Singapore |
Abstract | A communicativity index (Index I) is described that measures the potential communication function performed by a given language in a designated communication situation. Significant sociolinguistic contrasts between the language situations of West Malaysia and Singapore are revealed by applying this index. (PMJ) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |