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Title: | Belonging and Attitudes towards Ethnic Languages among African Migrants in Australia | Contributor(s): | Ndhlovu, Finex (author) | Publication Date: | 2010 | DOI: | 10.1080/07268601003678643 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13074 | Abstract: | Based on data from a research project on African identities in Melbourne, this paper assesses the attitudes of non-refugee African-Australians towards their ethnic languages in the context of the utility and prestige of English in Australia. The paper explores the tensions between discourses on rights to language(s) of choice and discourses on conforming to prescribed languages. It opens new questions about ethnic language loyalty and language maintenance among African-Australians. The following questions are addressed: how do African communities in Australia perceive their ethnic languages? What is the state of ethnic language maintenance among African-Australians? How do dominant monolingual discourses influence the attitude of African migrants towards their ethnic languages? How are African-Australian identities shaped and mediated by competing attitudes towards English on the one hand and migrant ethnic languages on the other? | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Journal of Linguistics, 30(3), p. 299-321 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1469-2996 0726-8602 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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