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Publication Date: 1979-Oct
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Measuring Communicativity in Multilingual Societies: The Cases of Singapore and West Malaysia.
Kuo, Eddie C. Y.
Anthropological Linguistics, v21 n7 p328-40 Oct 1979
A communicativity index (Index I) is described that measures the potential communication function performed by a given language in a designated communication situation. Significant sociolinguistic contrasts between the language situations of West Malaysia and Singapore are revealed by applying this index. (PMJ)
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