Promoting minority-language use in a bilingual online community

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-179

  Cunliffe, D ^a   Harries, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

BILINGUAL ENVIRONMENT; MINORITY LANGUAGES; ONLINE COMMUNITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 29144483342     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560500350750     Document Type: Article

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