Australia's community languages

Australia's community languages

This article focuses on Australia's changing language demography. After providing a short summary of immigration history and language policy in Australia, it considers the national distribution of languages at the time of the 2001 National Census, as well as the differential shift to English in...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of the sociology of language 2006, Vol.180 (180), p.7-21
Hauptverfasser: Clyne, Michael, Kipp, Sandra
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Australia
Community
Demography
Ethnolinguistics
Immigration
Language Policy
Language Shift
Linguistic minorities
Linguistics
Multiculturalism
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
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Zusammenfassung:This article focuses on Australia's changing language demography. After providing a short summary of immigration history and language policy in Australia, it considers the national distribution of languages at the time of the 2001 National Census, as well as the differential shift to English in various ethnolinguistic communities. The discussion is based on the analysis of census statistics and provides a context for the languages of the articles in this volume.
ISSN:0165-2516
1613-3668
DOI:10.1515/IJSL.2006.037