Maya Khemlani David
Biographic Data
| ID | 211503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Khemlani David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya Khemlani |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5569-3591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Integrating older persons’ narratives of resistance with critical discourse analysis to counter ageist discourses
This study examines ageist discourses in Pakistan’s Sindh province, employing an integrated approach that combines observations, narratives, and critical discourse analysis. Observations of participants in real-life settings were used to collect data. Moreover, six narrative interviews with older Sindhi participants were conducted to provide in-depth insights into how ageist discourses are constructed and resisted. The analysis demonstrated two d…
Explicit vs. unconscious management of the language policy
Spousal Loss- Older Adults’ Gender-specific Experiences With Resilience in Pakistan’s Sindh Province
Spousal loss among older persons is an emerging public health concern. Older adults from Pakistan's Sindh province may be particularly vulnerable when encountering the tragedy of spousal loss due to their age. Although resilience in older persons who live in social isolation has been researched extensively, less is known about older Sindhi adults' experience of how they achieve resilience after late-life spousal loss, and what different ways of a…
Shift or Maintenance
Pakistan is a diverse multiethnic country and has different cultures and languages. There are 74 languages spoken in the country (Siddiqui, 2019), year). However, different communities tend to migrate from their hometowns or rural areas to cities due to geographical, social, and economic mobility. In cities, they tend to adopt a new identity, culture, and language for sustainability. Karachi is the provincial capital and hub of various speech com…
Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth
Today many young members of the Sindhi community are migrating from villages to cities in Pakistan, where the national language, Urdu and the co-official language, English, dominates. This study investigates the daily language patterns of transplanted Sindhi speakers and the impact of such patterns on their mother tongue. Furthermore, as these speakers frequently switch from one language to another due to exposure to multilingualism in urban sett…
Investigating the Clash of Discourses on Linguistic Human Rights
This study investigates the clashing discourses of linguistic human rights in Pakistan’s multilingual Sindh province, where Sindhis are the majority, and English, Urdu, and Sindhi are used as official languages. The Sindhi language activists want Sindhi to be used as the medium of instruction for the first five formative years of education, while many Sindhi parents want their children to be taught in English. Such diverging demands have caused t…
Reconceptualizing Non-Assertive Speech Acts as Manifestations of Wisdom and Patience
In many Western countries, assertive speech is traditionally prioritized, seen as a mark of confidence and honesty, while non-assertive speech is often viewed as lacking these qualities. However, such generalizations about non-assertive speech can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts, as speech acts are culturally embedded and context-dependent. Our study focuses on Sindhi culture in Pakistan's Sindh province, where non-assertive speech signif…
Malaysian creole
In light of the historic linguistic vibrancy, Manglish, the unique Malaysian patois, emerges as a survivor through the hybridization of its words, expressions, and idioms that consists of local languages. The de facto national code of Malaysia, with all its creativity & complexity is exhibited as aversive to Standard English. This study explored the position of the colloquial variety as a creole by accentuating its significance in the global cont…
Multilingual Singapore
Multilingual Singapore: Language policies and linguistic realitiesRitu Jain (ed.) (2021)Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Pp. 224ISBN: 978-0-367-23519-2 (hbk)ISBN: 978-1-032-00043-5 (pbk)ISBN: 978-0-429-28014-6 (ebk)
Transporting and reconstructing hybrid identity through language use in the work domain
Globalisation has resulted in people from different parts of the world migrating from one country to another in search of better job opportunities. Countries that provide attractive job opportunities are most likely to become the major destinations of migrant workers. In Southeast Asia, Malaysia is one of the preferred destinations of economic migrants from neighbouring countries such as the Philippines. Studies show that blue-collar and white-co…
Handbook of home language maintenance and development
Pakistan needs a multilingual education model to protect minority language groups
Global aspirations versus local resources
The National Education Policy 2009 of Pakistan designated English for two important roles in the government schools of Pakistan: English be taught as a compulsory subject from Grade 1; and also English be used as the medium of instruction for science and mathematics from Grade 4. This article analyzes the effect of embracing the English-medium mandate in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Using content and language integrated learning theory, the ar…
Ecological planning towards language revitalization
This article examines the steady revitalization of an endangered minority community in northern Pakistan to show that how the Torwali community strategically mobilizes limited resources to achieve a sustainable revival of its language and culture. The uniqueness of the planning rests in its holistic, identity‐based integrated approach that seeks to use identity building as a catalyst for language and culture revitalization. Alongside rebuilding t…
Discourse of Folk Literature on Healthy Ageing
Due to COVID-19 and the repeated imposition of lockdowns in Pakistan's Sindh province, the life of senior citizens has become challenging. Given the scarcity of health care policies targeted at Sindh's aged persons, the use of folk literature as therapy has increased to support against isolation, depression, and distress caused by COVID-19 and lockdowns. Although research on healthy ageing from medical and health care perspectives has been increa…
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia
This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspo…
Negotiating English-only gatekeepers
The study is underpinned by the public sphere paradigm, which emphasizes that language policy and planning (LPP) should be studied from the actual practices of local stakeholders/agents and communities within the local sites. This approach allows researchers to understand the complex, multilayered, and dynamic process of policy interpretation, appropriation, and implementation. The study draws on qualitative interviews with 12 English teachers fr…
The Role of the Islamic Movement in Maintaining Standard Arabic in Israel
Does Religion Promote as well as Retard Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from Hinduism and Buddhism
8. Does Religion Promote as well as Retard Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from Hinduism and Buddhism was published in Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion on page 114.
Index
Religion and Education in the Preservation of Hebrew and Other Jewish Language Varieties
Faith and Language Maintenance in Transnational Places of Worship
6. Faith and Language Maintenance in Transnational Places of Worship: Brazilian Christian Settings in London was published in Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion on page 81.
Language Shift but Religious and Cultural Maintenance
7. Language Shift but Religious and Cultural Maintenance: A Study of the Punjabi Sikh Community in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia was published in Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion on page 98.
Islamic Religious Education, Identity and the Arabic Language Among University Students in Southwestern Nigeria
12. Islamic Religious Education, Identity and the Arabic Language Among University Students in Southwestern Nigeria was published in Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion on page 170.
Singing in My Language(s)
Politics, economics and identity
This study explores the linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using photographs as a source of data, the study collects samples from both government and private signage from five selected neighbourhoods of the city. In addition to photographs, interviews with business owners have been conducted and used for triangulation purposes. The data suggest that multidimensionality marks the linguistic landscape of the city. The multidimensionali…
Ethnolinguistic dilemma and static maintenance syndrome
Only two out of over 70 indigenous mother tongues are recognized in schools in Pakistan. This study examines orientations of the governments’ language-in-education policies, and scrutinizes the influence the policies exert on vitality of indigenous mother tongues, and the perceptions of their speakers. Using undergraduate students as samples, the study employed mixed-method for data collection. Linguistic diversity and multilingualism have been l…
Role and functions of code-switching in Malaysian courtrooms
Malay is the National Language of Malaysia. English is an important second language. Many of the older lawyers are more comfortable and proficient in English as English was the medium of instruction when they were in school. The younger lawyers had Malay as the medium of instruction and are consequently more comfortable in Malay. It was therefore hypothesized that code-switching would be used in a courtroom setting and the objective of this resea…
The glocalization of English in the Pakistan linguistic landscape
This study surveys the linguistic landscape in a particular area of Pakistan, and explores the use of languages, and the pervasiveness of English in the localized non-Roman script. Although English functions as a foreign language for most Pakistanis, it occurs extensively in signage in public places. Following the analysis of multiple data sources such as interviews of businesspeople and photographs of private signboards/billboards, wall advertis…
Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia
Article Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia? was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Language management
Language choice and language policies in Filipino-Malaysian families in multilingual Malaysia
Personal, social, cultural, economic, and political factors influence the language/s used by family members in the home domain. This study examines how family language policies are planned and developed in Filipino-Malaysian families in Malaysia. The language used at home in such mixed or exogamous marriages is also influenced by the ethnicity of the Malaysian spouse. Exposure outside the home domain where people speak at least two languages also…
Opening ideological and implementational spaces for multilingual/plurilingual policies and practices in education
The study proposes that Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) can be deployed as a productive theoretical construct for scholarly activism in a country such as Pakistan where multilingualism and linguistic diversity have historically been seen as problems than assets in education. We illustrate that such activism can transform orientations and deconstruct myths/misconceptions about bi/multilingual/plurilingual education as research sugg…
Transporting and reconstructing hybrid identity through language use in the work domain
Globalisation has resulted in people from different parts of the world migrating from one country to another in search of better job opportunities. Countries that provide attractive job opportunities are most likely to become the major destinations of migrant workers. In Southeast Asia, Malaysia is one of the preferred destinations of economic migrants from neighbouring countries such as the Philippines. Studies show that blue-collar and white-co…
Markers of ethnic identity
The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan
Article The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan: reasons for language shift was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Discourse of Folk Literature on Healthy Ageing
Due to COVID-19 and the repeated imposition of lockdowns in Pakistan's Sindh province, the life of senior citizens has become challenging. Given the scarcity of health care policies targeted at Sindh's aged persons, the use of folk literature as therapy has increased to support against isolation, depression, and distress caused by COVID-19 and lockdowns. Although research on healthy ageing from medical and health care perspectives has been increa…
Language Shift and Identity Reproduction among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia
This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspo…
Negotiating English-only gatekeepers
The study is underpinned by the public sphere paradigm, which emphasizes that language policy and planning (LPP) should be studied from the actual practices of local stakeholders/agents and communities within the local sites. This approach allows researchers to understand the complex, multilayered, and dynamic process of policy interpretation, appropriation, and implementation. The study draws on qualitative interviews with 12 English teachers fr…
Language shift or maintenance
Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some other domains. The present study seeks to explore the extent to which the use of Sindhi language has be…
Conversion narratives and construction of identity among Christians in Malaysia
Conversion narratives in the form of testimony are powerful means of consolidating and strengthening one's new religious identity (Beit-Hallahmi, Prolegomena to the psychological study of religion, Bucknell University Press, 1989; Rambo, Understanding religious conversion, Yale University Press, 1993; Stromberg 1993, as cited in Emmons & Paloutzian, Annual Review of Psychology 54: 377–402, 2003). Using conversion narratives is common among Christ…
Talking to older Malaysians
Previous studies (e. g. Macionis 2001 and Gilleard and Higgs 2000) have shown that the elderly are frequently subject to ageism (a form of social stratification which discriminates groups of people by their ages) in industrialised societies. In any sort of social stratification, language plays an important role in the sustenance of the inequality of power and hegemony (Kramarae, Schulz and O'Barr 1984; Foucault 1980; and Fairclough 1995). The cod…
Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women's and men's talk
Academically speaking, for many years humour has been studied in the spheres of philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and even the neurosciences. In its role, humour allows the speaker to represent a parallel reality, which often induces positive feedback such as laughter, smiles and grins from his/her fellow listeners. This gender study of humour, analyses the roles and functions as well as the similarities and differences…
Role and functions of code-switching in Malaysian courtrooms
Malay is the National Language of Malaysia. English is an important second language. Many of the older lawyers are more comfortable and proficient in English as English was the medium of instruction when they were in school. The younger lawyers had Malay as the medium of instruction and are consequently more comfortable in Malay. It was therefore hypothesized that code-switching would be used in a courtroom setting and the objective of this resea…
Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia
Article Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia? was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Markers of ethnic identity
The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan
Article The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan: reasons for language shift was published on April 23, 2003 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2003, issue 161)
Requests
To make a request is to express a desire for the addressee to do something, and because it bears a requirement to be complied with, a request is usually best achieved when performed with tact and politeness. Bach and Harnish (1984: 48) define the term request as ‘a speech act expressing the speaker's desire for the hearer to do something with the added proviso that the hearer takes this expressed desire as the reason to act’. This paper examines …
Talking to older Malaysians
Previous studies (e. g. Macionis 2001 and Gilleard and Higgs 2000) have shown that the elderly are frequently subject to ageism (a form of social stratification which discriminates groups of people by their ages) in industrialised societies. In any sort of social stratification, language plays an important role in the sustenance of the inequality of power and hegemony (Kramarae, Schulz and O'Barr 1984; Foucault 1980; and Fairclough 1995). The cod…
Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women's and men's talk
Academically speaking, for many years humour has been studied in the spheres of philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology and even the neurosciences. In its role, humour allows the speaker to represent a parallel reality, which often induces positive feedback such as laughter, smiles and grins from his/her fellow listeners. This gender study of humour, analyses the roles and functions as well as the similarities and differences…
Language in the media
Language in the media, edited by Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin, London and New York, Continuum, 2007, xii + 314 pp., £80.00/$150.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8264-9548-8; £27.99/$49.95 (paperback)
Language choice and code switching of the elderly and the youth
The language of the aged has not been given as much attention as that of the youth. Hence, the aim of this research is to compare the language choices and discoursal features of the aged with that of the youth. This study focuses on the Chinese community from Tangkak, Johor, in Peninsular Malaysia, who use the Hokkien dialect. The older informants preferred to speak in their dialect while the younger informants preferred Mandarin. Older informant…
Conversion narratives and construction of identity among Christians in Malaysia
Conversion narratives in the form of testimony are powerful means of consolidating and strengthening one's new religious identity (Beit-Hallahmi, Prolegomena to the psychological study of religion, Bucknell University Press, 1989; Rambo, Understanding religious conversion, Yale University Press, 1993; Stromberg 1993, as cited in Emmons & Paloutzian, Annual Review of Psychology 54: 377–402, 2003). Using conversion narratives is common among Christ…
Posh Talk
Language choice and language policies in Filipino-Malaysian families in multilingual Malaysia
Personal, social, cultural, economic, and political factors influence the language/s used by family members in the home domain. This study examines how family language policies are planned and developed in Filipino-Malaysian families in Malaysia. The language used at home in such mixed or exogamous marriages is also influenced by the ethnicity of the Malaysian spouse. Exposure outside the home domain where people speak at least two languages also…
Language management
Politics, economics and identity
This study explores the linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using photographs as a source of data, the study collects samples from both government and private signage from five selected neighbourhoods of the city. In addition to photographs, interviews with business owners have been conducted and used for triangulation purposes. The data suggest that multidimensionality marks the linguistic landscape of the city. The multidimensionali…
Fluidity and acculturation
This paper traces the history of Pakistani Punjabis living in Brunei Darussalam, a community that began its journey long before the country’s establishment as a sovereign country in 1984. The most significant feature of this community is its fluidity because its stay in Brunei is not permanent. This makes the Punjabis a non-local/non-native community, which is markedly different from Punjabi communities living in countries such as Canada, New Zea…
Cultural maintenance within the Tamil minority in Kuching
This paper intends to determine whether the minority Tamil immigrant community in Kuching, Sarawak still maintains its heritage culture or has assimilated it with the dominant cultures in Sarawak. Are the Tamils in Kuching still maintaining their cultural norms? The data comes from a set of questionnaires investigating language, social and cultural identity, and unstructured interviews spanning three generations. The results show that, while some…
The Construction of National Identity and Globalization in Multilingual Malaysia
This chapter outlines the multilingual and multiethnic context in which language policy in Malaysia should be interpreted, and discusses how the nation tackles the dual task of nation building and preparing its citizens to take part in globalization processes. It examines the role of English-language textbooks in promoting national pride and national identity, in balancing the interests of the various ethnic groups, and in enhancing the global ou…
The English-medium fever in Pakistan
This study analyses the crisis of English teaching in Pakistan. The study examines stakeholders’ perceptions and classroom practices to identify theoretical fault lines and institutional/pedagogical challenges in the low-fee schools. We deem such research critical in the backdrop of public's heavy reliance and feverish pursuit of low-fee English-medium schools which have expanded exponentially off late. Deploying mixed methodology that utilized a…
Language shift or maintenance
Pakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some other domains. The present study seeks to explore the extent to which the use of Sindhi language has be…
Ethnolinguistic dilemma and static maintenance syndrome
Only two out of over 70 indigenous mother tongues are recognized in schools in Pakistan. This study examines orientations of the governments’ language-in-education policies, and scrutinizes the influence the policies exert on vitality of indigenous mother tongues, and the perceptions of their speakers. Using undergraduate students as samples, the study employed mixed-method for data collection. Linguistic diversity and multilingualism have been l…
The glocalization of English in the Pakistan linguistic landscape
This study surveys the linguistic landscape in a particular area of Pakistan, and explores the use of languages, and the pervasiveness of English in the localized non-Roman script. Although English functions as a foreign language for most Pakistanis, it occurs extensively in signage in public places. Following the analysis of multiple data sources such as interviews of businesspeople and photographs of private signboards/billboards, wall advertis…
Opening ideological and implementational spaces for multilingual/plurilingual policies and practices in education
The study proposes that Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) can be deployed as a productive theoretical construct for scholarly activism in a country such as Pakistan where multilingualism and linguistic diversity have historically been seen as problems than assets in education. We illustrate that such activism can transform orientations and deconstruct myths/misconceptions about bi/multilingual/plurilingual education as research sugg…
The Role of the Islamic Movement in Maintaining Standard Arabic in Israel
Does Religion Promote as well as Retard Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from Hinduism and Buddhism
8. Does Religion Promote as well as Retard Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from Hinduism and Buddhism was published in Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion on page 114.
Index
Sociology (42 works) · Linguistics (35 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (28 works) · Political science (21 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works)