Overview
Provides up-to-date material on the languages of Brunei
Describes specific features of language usage based on a detailed analysis of data
Enables researchers and students to gain an in-depth understanding of the linguistic situation in Brunei
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Language Choice
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Discourse
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James McLellan is a Senior Lecturer of English Language and Linguistics at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He previously taught at secondary and tertiary levels in the UK, France, Malaysia, Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand). His research interests include Malay-English language alternation, Southeast Asian Englishes, Borneo indigenous language maintenance, and language policy and planning in education.
David Deterding is a Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, where he teaches Phonetics, Malay-English Translation, Forensic Linguistics, and Research Methods. His research concerns acoustic measurement, phonetic description of English, Malay and Chinese, and the description of varieties of English in Southeast Asia, including those of Brunei, Singapore, China and Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam
Book Subtitle: A Kingdom of Unexpected Linguistic Diversity
Editors: Noor Azam Haji-Othman, James McLellan, David Deterding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0851-1Published: 27 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9269-5Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0853-5Published: 17 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Languages