"Is Jaffna Tamil the Best?" Producing "Legitimate" Language in a Multilingual Sri Lankan School

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Davis, Christina P ^a  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language ideologies; Metadiscourse; Multilingual education; Social inequality; Tamil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867222206     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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