Publications

Publication details [#32164]

Sandel, Tod L. 2003. Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The KMT's Mandarin language policy and its perceived impact on language practices of bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi speakers. Language in Society 32 (4) : 523–551.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | ideology | language policy

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study deals with the KMT (Nationalist) government's Mandarin Language Policy in schools throughout Taiwan, the recent reversal of this policy, and the impact of these school-based policies on family-based speaking practices.