Impact of language planning on language choice in friendship and transaction domains in Sarawak, Malaysia.

• Main Author: Ting , Su Hie
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor&Francis 2010
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1028/1/Impact%2Bof%2Blanguage%2Bplanning%2Bon%2Blanguage%2Bchoice%2Bin%2Bfriendship%2Band%2Btransaction%2Bdomains%2Bin%2BSarawak%252C%2BMalaysia.%252824%2529.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1028/

This paper shows that language planning in government-controlled domains has a spillover effect in domains where language use is not regulated by language policies. Language planning in post-colonial Malaysia can be broadly divided into three phases: status planning whereby English was replaced b...