Thailand’s Hierarchy of Multilingualism  

Oleh:

Smalley, William A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 2 (1988), page 245-261.
Fulltext: 10_02_Smalley_01.pdf (1.07MB)

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Thailand has a long-standing, deeply-entrenched, country-wide hierarchy of multilingualism through which inter-language rivalry is channeled. Made possible by a semantic system in which languages are centered categories rather than bounded ones, this hierarchy contributes to the pattern of multiple ethnic identities and of ethnic mobility which has been noted for different peoples in the country. At the same time, it also masks the extensive linguistic diversity which is present. Government policies, which have often been conceived as replacing languages lower on the hierarchy with Standard Thai, in effect do not generally eliminate other languages, but do help to consolidate the place of Standard Thai at the top of the hierarchy, as the language of the nation.

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