Overview
- A critical introduction of Chinese language policy and language education to an international audience
- The first-of-its-kind detailed analysis of the attitudes of an emerging Putonghua-as-first-dialect generation
- A wealth of original data supports novel insights on attitudes towards regional dialects and identity ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Backgrounds
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Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks
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Becoming Members of a Multidialectal City
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Putonghua and Regional Dialects at School
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Keywords
- Cantonese dialect and language identity
- Chinese dialects and Putongua education
- bilingual education in China
- discourse analysis Chinese dialects
- language diversity in China
- language education research in China
- linguistic anthropology in China
- monolingual norms and multilingual practice
- multilingual education in China
- sociolinguistic analysis for educational practice
About this book
These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field of language-attitude research, and situates attitudes towards Chinese regional dialects in their social, historical as well as local contexts.
The role of language policies and the links between the interactional phenomena and other contextual factors are investigated through the multi-level analysis of linguistic ethnographic data. This study captures the long-term language socialisation process and the moment-to-moment construction of language attitudes at a level of detail that is rarely seen. The narrative is presented in a highly readable style, without compromising the theoretical sophistication and sociolinguistic complexities.
Reviews
This book is a vivid and fascinating portrayal of how students and teachers in Guangzhou deal with the complexities of life in a multilingual environment. Rich in detail, it is also wonderfully clear and accessible to both scholars and general readers. Don Snow, English Language Center, Guangdong, China
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China
Book Subtitle: A Linguistic Ethnography
Authors: Sihua Liang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12619-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12618-0Published: 18 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37902-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12619-7Published: 04 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 202
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Educational Policy and Politics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology