Politeness Strategies of Bruneian Malay Youths in Compliment Speech Acts
Compliments are complex multi-functional speech acts which aim to establish, maintain and consolidate social relationships. Holmes (1986 ) defined a compliment as a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the spea
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The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam A Kingdom of Unexpected Linguistic Diversity
The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam
Noor Azam Haji-Othman James McLellan David Deterding •
Editors
The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam A Kingdom of Unexpected Linguistic Diversity
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Editors Noor Azam Haji-Othman University of Brunei Darussalam Gadong Brunei Darussalam
David Deterding University of Brunei Darussalam Gadong Brunei Darussalam
James McLellan University of Brunei Darussalam Gadong Brunei Darussalam
ISBN 978-981-10-0851-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5
ISBN 978-981-10-0853-5
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Preface
Brunei Darussalam is a small country, but it exhibits substantial linguistic diversity: Brunei Malay is generally the lingua franca, Standard Malay is taught in schools, different groups speak a range of other indigenous languages such as Kedayan, Dusun, Tutong and Iban as well as various dialects of Chinese, and English is also widely spoken especially by the well-educated. Description of the ways that these languages are used in Brunei therefore provides a fascinating snapshot of the kind of multilingual diversity that tends to occur in Southeast Asia. This book offers insights into various facets of the linguistic diversity of Brunei, including the status of minority languages in the country, the language of shop-signs, the pronunciation of Brunei English and Brunei Mandarin, the acquisition of Malay, attitudes of university students towards non-native teachers, language choice among foreign workers, code-switching in the courtroom, the adoption of Malay compliment strategies by young people, the lexical choices and discourse of online te
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