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Multilingualism and language maintenance in the East Timorese diaspora in Portugal

dc.contributor.authorGoglia, F
dc.contributor.authorAfonso, S
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-15T08:43:06Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-03
dc.description.abstractThe East Timorese linguistic repertoire is complex. It comprises Tetum, Portuguese (now both official languages in East Timor), Bahasa Indonesia and other local national languages. Moreover, different generations have different degrees of knowledge and use of these languages due to historical changes and resulting language policies in East Timor. In this article, we analyze multilingualism in the East-Timorese community in Portugal using sociolinguistic questionnaires on language use, choice and attitudes. The result of our analysis shows that the East Timorese multilingual repertoire is re-shaped in the immigrant context in the following way: Tetum is the only East Timorese national language which is maintained and functions as an East Timorese identity marker. Informants have a positive attitude towards Portuguese, clearly identifying it as a High language. Furthermore Bahasa Indonesia is still maintained to a certain degree in some domains.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipBritish Academyen_GB
dc.format.mediumEnglish
dc.identifier.citationVol. 10, pp. 73 - 99en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.21471/jls.v10i0.89
dc.identifier.grantnumberSG100616en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/11741
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAmerican Portuguese Studies Associationen_GB
dc.rights© 2016 Francesco Goglia & Susana Alfonso. Open access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
dc.subjectMultilingualism in the immigrant contexten_GB
dc.subjectLanguage attitudesen_GB
dc.subjectLanguage shiften_GB
dc.subjectLanguage maintenanceen_GB
dc.subjectLanguage contacten_GB
dc.subjectEast Timoren_GB
dc.titleMultilingualism and language maintenance in the East Timorese diaspora in Portugalen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2013-07-15T08:43:06Z
dc.contributor.editorCooney, N
dc.identifier.issn1935-0791
exeter.place-of-publicationUSA
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from the American Portuguese Studies Association via the DOI in this record
dc.identifier.eissn2152-9604
dc.identifier.journalellipsisen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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refterms.dateFCD2013-07-15T08:43:06Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
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© 2016 Francesco Goglia & Susana Alfonso. Open access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Except where otherwise noted, this item's licence is described as © 2016 Francesco Goglia & Susana Alfonso. Open access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.