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Publication details [#11876]

Bruche-Schulz, Gisela. 1997. 'Fuzzy' Chinese: The Status of Cantonese in Hong Kong. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (3) : 295–314. 20 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | language of instruction | language status | linguistic norm | second language

Language as a subject

Cantonese | Chinese | Putonghua

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In view of the changing political situation in China, several issues related to public perception of language prospects are discussed, including the introduction of Putonghua in Chinese schools.