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Publication details [#60264]

Ting, Su-Hie and Yann-Yann Puah. 2015. Malaysian Chinese speakers' attitudes towards Foochow, Hokkien and Mandarin. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (5) : 451–467.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | gender | language attitude | social status | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Chinese, Foochow | chinese, Hokkien | Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores the impact of gender, age and socio-economic status on Malaysian Chinese speakers' stances towards their ethnic Foochow and Hokkien languages and towards Mandarin. The findings denote different stereotypes of dialect and Mandarin speakers (with Foochow as rich and relaxed, and Hokkien as formal and solidary).