Chiu Chow
Language Choice
Communicative competence allows us to speak and use the varieties in our linguistic repertoire. After examining the patterns of language choice of our six informants, we are able to identify the social and sociolinguistic factors most associated with variations in those patterns of language choice. The model of domain analysis from Fishman (1972) is used to analyse the collected data...
Language and Identity
Language use and identity has always been linked up by people. People recognized one’s identity with the language he or she speaks or by the accents he or she carries. According to Fishman (1991), “the destruction of a language is the destruction of a rooted identity”. It is shown that use of the language have a positive relation with the construction of the identity and this is related to the...