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Publication details [#37634]

Kalmar, Ivan, Zhong Yong and Xiao Hong. 1987. Language attitudes in Guangzhou, China. Language in Society 16 (4) : 499–508.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language attitude | sociolinguistics | standard1

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines how Cantonese and non-Cantonese students of the Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute judge good Mandarin speech and Mandarin speech heavily influenced by Cantonese.