Part 1 Perspectives on bilingualism and language choice: introductory the macro-societal perspective the micro-interactional perspective the social networks perspective - towards an integrated model. Part 2 Chinese communities in Britain: composition of the Chinese population in Britain the Hong Kong background Chinese migration and settlement overseas the catering trade the emergence of a three-generation population Chinese familv system Language use Existing evidence 2.8 The Tyneside Chinese community. Part 3 Participant observation in a Chinese community: introductory features of participant observation describing participant observation - some problems stages of fieldwork field relationships and linguistic data - observer's paradox revisited. Part 4 Patterns of language choice and language shift: language choice by three generations language choice and speaker variables variations and change in language ability. Part 5 Social networks and variations in language choice: network types collecting social network data generational differences in social network patterns social networks and language choice patterns social networks and language ability interactions between inter- and intra-speaker variations in language choice. Part 6 Conversational code-switching: introductory a sequentail approach to code-switching code-switching as a contextualization cue in Chinese/English conversation code-switching and community choice norms. Summary and conclusion. Appendixes: information on the speaker sample language ability scores social network indices.
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