Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam: Mis Sea#100 (Volume 100) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam: Mis Sea#100 (Volume 100) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)

A linguistic reference studying the variety of languages found in Brunei Darussalam, located on the northern coast of Borneo between the two Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah. The sultanate is a veritable petri dish of linguistic shifts and uses in the field of Austronesian linguistics, accommodating a variety of Malay dialects and English use which are minutely diagramed by the contributors. The studies' findings reveal and interesting paradigm of language use in which people speaking the indigenous and dialectical languages are changing to Brunei Malay as their informal form of communication, while educated Malays are switching to English as their primary code for formal communication a development leading to significant changes in both languages. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The oil-rich sultanate of Brunei Darussalam is located on the northern coast of Borneo between the two Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah. Though the country is small in size and in population, the variety of language use there provides a veritable laboratory for linguists in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, bilingual studies, and sociolinguistic studies, particularly those dealing with language shift.

This useful reference is divided into three sections: one on varieties of the Malay language used in the country, one on other indigenous languages, and one on the role and form of the English used there. Contributors to the collection include Bruneian scholars as well as established experts in the fields of Austronesian linguistics, sociolinguistics studies, and the description of new varieties of English.