Communication in a close-knit extended Hakka family in Kuching, Sarawak : Mandarin or Hakka?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ting, Su Hie, Chang, Y. S.
• التنسيق: Proceeding
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2008
• الموضوعات: AC Collections. Series. Collected works; P Philology. Linguistics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/721/7/Communication%20in.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/721/

Many language shift and maintenance studies have shown that there is a shift away from the ethnic language towards more socially and economically viable languages in the family domain. This study investigates the language use of an extended Hakka family to find out whether the close-knit relationsh...