Publications

Publication details [#60259]

Zhao, Juanjuan and Dana Funywe Ng. 2015. Investigating Cantonese speakers' language attitudes in Mainland China. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (4) : 357–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language policy | language status | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English | Putonghua

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Cantonese-speaking students in Mainland China display integrative attitudes towards Cantonese, whilst considering Putonghua and English as devices for career progress and international communication. But PRC language policies still undervalue official, minority and regional languages.