Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change

By Siew IMM Tan

This book is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. It demonstrates the ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. It suggests that those variations and changes are the results of the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631637004
• ISBN13: 9783631637005
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"