RETRACTED: Portuguese Settlement Community's Awareness and Response to Papia Kristang Language Shift

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Guest Editor.The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific, Vol. 30 (2011) 77-99: http://www.apu.ac.jp/rcaps/uploads/fckeditor/publications/journal/RJAPS_V30_Lee.pdfOne of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.