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Publication details [#64690]

Hsu, Hui-ju. 2018. The entanglement of emotion and reality: an investigation of the Taiwanese people’s attitudes towards Taigi. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 39 (1) : 76–91.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | language attitude | language policy | language revival | reality

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | Taigi

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This inquiry took on both indirect and direct procedures to explore Taiwanese people’s attitudes towards Taigi. Its result proposed that Taigi revival faces the possible dare of Taigi purism, as revived Taigi can hardly shun the impacts from Mandarin, the dominant language in Taiwan.