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Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family : Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in Britain Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 104
Citizens of This Country: The Asian British MARY STOPES-ROE and RAYMOND COCHRANE
Continuing to Think: The British Asian Girl BARRIE WADE and PAMELA SOUTER
Coping with Two Cultures PAUL A. S. GHUMAN
Education of Chinese Children in Britain and the USA LORNITA YUEN-FAN WONG
Equality Matters H. CLAIRE, J. MAYBIN and J. SWANN (eds)
European Models of Bilingual Education HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE (ed.)
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism COLIN BAKER
Immigrant Languages in Europe GUUS EXTRA and LUDO VERHOEVEN (eds)
Language Diversity Surveys as Agents of Change JOE NICHOLAS
Language, Minority Education and Gender DAVID CORSON
Making Multicultural Education Work STEPHEN MAY
The Step-Tongue: Children's English in Singapore ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA
Please contact us for the latest book information: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ, England
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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS 104 Series Editor: Derrick Sharp
Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family
Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in Britain
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Li Wei Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family: Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in Britain. p. cm. (Multilingual Matters: 104) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Cantonese dialectGreat Britain. 2. ChineseGreat BritainLanguage. 3. Cantonese dialectSocial aspectsGreat Britain. I. Title. II. Series: Multilingual Matters (Series): 104. PL1740.G7W45 1994 495.1'7dc20 94-9959
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 1-85359-241-2 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-240-4 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ. USA: 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA. Australia: P.O. Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Copyright 1994 Li Wei.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Typeset by Editorial Enterprises, Devon. Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Ltd, Bridgend.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Romanisation and Transcription Conventions
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Introduction
1
1 Perspectives on Bilingualism and Language Choice
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The macro-societal perspective
6
The micro-interactional perspective
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The social network perspective: Towards an integrated model
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