Speaking in tongues: Family communication in a multicultural society

• Main Authors: Ting, Su Hie, Sim, Edmund U. H.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: UK: Whiting & Birch 2015
• Subjects: HM Sociology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14289/1/Speaking%20in%20tongues%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14289/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299613421_Speaking_in_tongues_Family_communication_in_a_multicultural_society

Language is an aspect of culture that defines a person, just like how customs and ways of life and beliefs make a person who they are. When two persons get together in a marriage, much accommodation and assimilation of practices, attitudes and values take place so that two different individuals can...