Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 418-447

  Canagarajah, A Suresh ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Code choice; Minority language rights; Post colonial communities; Sri Lanka; Tamil nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944470955     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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