Language choices and discourse of Malaysian families
Subtitle: case studies of families in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
By: edited by Maya Khemlani David
Contributors: Strategic Info Research Development
Publisher: SIRD
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Case studies; Language and culture; Interpersonal communication; Second language acquisition; Language and languages; Study and teaching; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Language choices in Sindhi families / Maya Khemlani David; title: Cultural norms that govern mother-daughter-in-law interactions among Malaysian Iyer women / Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar; title: Sex and other taboo topics, language shift in group interactions among older Malaysian Bengali women / Dipika Mukherjee; title: Malaysian English as a first language / Stefanie Pillai; title: Signs of becoming bilingual, a study of a Malaysian child under two / Kuang Ching Hei; title: True or dare? concretizing family relationships, a case study of an urban Tamil-Telugu family / Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan; title: Getting tok to understand, talk management strategies in conversations troubled by hearing impairment / Jawakhir Mior Jaafar; title: Mother and daughter talk, closeness, conflict, and control / Jariah Mohd. Jan; title: Family discourse and the construction of the gendered self and others / Zuraidah Mohd. Don.