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Publication details [#53347]

Groves, Julie May. 2010. Language or dialect, topolect or regiolect? A comparative study of language attitudes towards the status of Cantonese in Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (6) : 531–551.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definition | dialect1 | language attitude | language status | language variety

Language as a subject

Cantonese, Hong Kong

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This comparative study of language attitudes towards Hong Kong Cantonese held by Hong Kong Cantonese, Mainland Chinese Cantonese and Mainland Chinese Putonghua speakers, reveals that Hong Kong Cantonese would be more correctly defined as an emerging mid-zone language variety than as a dialect.