Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China A Linguistic Ethnography
These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction: Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Backgrounds
- Dialect Issues in Multilingual China: A Dog That Has Barked
- The Politics and Sociolinguistics of Chinese Dialects
- Part II: Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks
- Researching Language Attitudes in Multilingual China
- Part III: Becoming Members of a Multidialectal City
- “Mother Tongues” of a Multidialectal City
- Language Socialisation in Multidialectal Households: a Case Study
- Part IV: Putonghua and Regional Dialects at School
- Language Socialisation in Educational Institutions
- Teachers’ Attitudes towards Dialects in School
- Part V: Discussion and Reflection
- Problematizing the Monolingual Norm in a Multidialectal City
- Schools in the Era of Multilingualism
- Language Attitudes in Heteroglossia: Methodological Reflections
- Appendix I: The Students’ Profiles
- Appendix II: The Schools and the Teachers’ Profiles