Publications

Publication details [#42537]

Zhang, Wei. 2005. Code-choice in bidialectal interaction: the choice between Putonghua and Cantonese in a radio phone-in program in Shenzhen. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (3) : 355–374.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | conversational analysis | dialect1 | language choice | radio talk

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | Putonghua

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines code-choice between the standard Putonghua dialect and the regional Cantonese dialect in a radio phone-in program in the bidialectal southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, to explore the relationship between macrolevel sociolinguistic structures and microlevel conversational structures.