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- Offers an up-to-date macro-sociolinguistic examination of English within the context of Macau multilingualism
- Documents the long tradition of Macau multilingualism as a defining feature of the community
- Demonstrates the importance of sociolinguistic analysis in small communities and argues that the pressures upon small communities are frequently overlooked
- Examines the role of English and multilingualism in the development of a middle-class community?
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 39)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book examines the role of English within education and society in the quickly changing city of Macau. Macau’s multilingual language ecology offers the unique opportunity to examine language planning and policy issues within a small speech community. The languages within the ecology include several Chinese varieties, such as Cantonese, Putonghua and Hokkien, European languages like Portuguese and English, and a number of Asian languages that include, among others, Burmese, Filipino languages, Japanese, Timorese, etc. As the smallest city in South China's Pearl River Delta, Macau has sought to maintain cultural and linguistic independence from its larger neighbours, and independence has been built upon an historic commitment to multilingualism and cultural plurality. As economic development and globalisation offer new opportunities to a growing middle class, the sociolinguistics of a small society constrain and influence the language policies that the territory seeks to implement. Macau's multilingual and pluralistic response to language needs within the territory echoes historical responses to similar challenges and suggests that small communities function sociolinguistically in ways that differ from larger communities.
Keywords
- Education in Macau
- English and Chinese in Macau Tertiary Education
- Future Status and Functions of Multilingualism in Macau
- Language Learning Macau
- Macau English
- Macau Portugese
- Multilingual Education Small Societies
- Multilingualism and English in Primary Education
- Recent Developments in Macau Multilingualism
- Sociolinguistics Small Societies
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of English (FAH), University of Macau, Taipa, Macao
Andrew J. Moody
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Macau’s Languages in Society and Education
Book Subtitle: Planning in a Multilingual Ecology
Authors: Andrew J. Moody
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68265-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68263-7Published: 19 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68265-1Published: 18 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Applied Linguistics