Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities

Urbanization, language contact and identity formation

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016)

Editor

Marinus van den Berg | Leiden University

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 26:1] 2016. v, 173 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.26.1

Table of Contents

Introduction
Introduction Marinus van den Berg	1–7
Articles
Speech community theory and the language / dialect debate Daming Xu	8–31
Attitude, maintenance, and use of Beijing dialect and Putonghua among younger generation Beijing-born residents Jing Song and Yingmei Zhu	32–55
The Dōngběi varieties of Mandarin: A brief look at their history and classification Richard VanNess Simmons	56–80
Urbanization, education, and language behavior: The case of Jilin University students Xiaoguang Li, Zhan Ju and Marinus van den Berg	81–111
Modernization and the restructuring of the Shanghai speech community Marinus van den Berg	112–142
Language choice and language attitude among different social segments in Shenzhen Tang Zhixiang	143–160
Book review
Review of Jingwei (): A Sociophonetic Study on Tonal Variation of the Wúxī and Shànghăi Dialects Reviewed by Philip Rose	161–173

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Altaic languages

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General