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Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak

This paper reports on an on-going research project which examines the current state of linguistic ecology in the state of Sarawak. The project makes comparison of the "endangerment scenarios" of various ethnic minorities mainly in the Miri and Kuching Division. The discussion of communit...

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Main Author: Norahim, Norazuna
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2013
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spelling my.unimas.ir.3502020-08-25T06:58:08Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/350/ Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak Norahim, Norazuna AC Collections. Series. Collected works This paper reports on an on-going research project which examines the current state of linguistic ecology in the state of Sarawak. The project makes comparison of the "endangerment scenarios" of various ethnic minorities mainly in the Miri and Kuching Division. The discussion of communities in this paper uses Himmelmann's (2010) framework which examine "endangerment scenarios" as systematization of typical constellations leading to large scale language shift in a community. Preliminary observations and previous studies have shown that the following combination of factors contributes to endangerment in the Sarawak contexts' disintegration of speech communities as a result of rural-urban migration and in-migration, recessive bilingualism, effects of language policy. Conversely, ethnic preserverance, markers of group identity other than language, and retention of personal and group values accounts for why languages of lesser communities have survived despite the impending threats to their survival. The impact of migration on the demography - e.g. decrease in size and density of speech communities will accelerate the rate of language shift in linguistics minorities. This factor will be discussed in greater detail. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2013 Working Paper PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/350/1/Towards_a_Typology_of_Endangerment_Scenario_abstract.pdf Norahim, Norazuna (2013) Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak. [Working Paper] (Submitted)
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Norahim, Norazuna
Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
description This paper reports on an on-going research project which examines the current state of linguistic ecology in the state of Sarawak. The project makes comparison of the "endangerment scenarios" of various ethnic minorities mainly in the Miri and Kuching Division. The discussion of communities in this paper uses Himmelmann's (2010) framework which examine "endangerment scenarios" as systematization of typical constellations leading to large scale language shift in a community. Preliminary observations and previous studies have shown that the following combination of factors contributes to endangerment in the Sarawak contexts' disintegration of speech communities as a result of rural-urban migration and in-migration, recessive bilingualism, effects of language policy. Conversely, ethnic preserverance, markers of group identity other than language, and retention of personal and group values accounts for why languages of lesser communities have survived despite the impending threats to their survival. The impact of migration on the demography - e.g. decrease in size and density of speech communities will accelerate the rate of language shift in linguistics minorities. This factor will be discussed in greater detail.
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title Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
title_short Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
title_full Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
title_fullStr Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Typology of Endangerment Scenario The Case of Sarawak
title_sort towards a typology of endangerment scenario the case of sarawak
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/350/1/Towards_a_Typology_of_Endangerment_Scenario_abstract.pdf
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