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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
Place, Publisher
Routledge

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).