Publications

Publication details [#48900]

Ladegaard, Hans J. and Limei Wang. 2008. Language Attitudes and Gender in China: Perceptions and Reported Use of Putonghua and Cantonese in the Southern Province of Guangdong. Language Awareness 17 (1) : 57–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language attitude | language status | language use | language variety

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | Putonghua

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores the role of gender and language attitudes in young people's perceptions and reported use of the coexisting language varieties of Putonghua and Cantonese in the urban centre of Guangzhou in the southern Chinese Province of Guangdong.