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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
LIN2530
Languages in contact
Proposed to be offered next in 1997
M Clyne
8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton
Synopsis This subject considers language contact theory and its
application in Australia and South-East Asia, transference and code-switching,
bilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, pidgins and
creoles, and field work. Students will be able to specialise, in their
assignment work, in either Australian or Malaysian/Singapore questions.
Assessment Written assignment (4000 words): 40% + Class test (2 hours):
30% + Class exercises: 30%
Prescribed texts
- Appel R and Muysken P Bilingualism and language contact Edward
Arnold, 1987
- Clyne M Community languages: The Australian experience CUP, 1991
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