A Study Of Attitudes Of Dialect Speakers Towards The Speak Mandarin Campaign In Singapore
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| Author | : Patrick Chin Leong Ng |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2017-01-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9811034435 |
This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers towards Mandarin.Singapore may be only “a small red dot” and barely visible on the world’s map. However, its complex and dynamic linguistic diversity and its quadrilingual educational system make it a unique and fascinating research site for examining deliberate language planning on the part of governmental authorities. 2017 marks the 38th anniversary of the Speak Mandarin Campaign, a focused language-planning policy aimed at changing the deeply entrenched sociolinguistic habits of Chinese Singaporeans who are used to speaking Chinese dialects. This book provides a revealing update on dialect speakers’ attitudes towards the campaign by including discussions and other related issues such as the recent call for the revitalisation of Chinese dialects by younger dialect speakers, Chinese students’ attitude towards learning Mandarin in schools, the encroachment of English in the home environment, the spread and dominance of English in the local linguistic landscape, and the challenges of maintaining Mandarin as a language of use and preference.
| Author | : Anna Ghimenton |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2021-08-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027259755 |
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition across the lifespan that take into account language-internal and cross-linguistic variation in contexts of both first and second language acquisition as well as of first and second dialect acquisition. The volume brings together theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both the production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand, on the one hand, how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and, on the other, how perception and production feed into one another, thus building up our understanding of the social meanings underpinning language variation.
| Author | : Ritu Jain |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000386929 |
This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and South Asian and Austronesian languages. The chapters in this volume trace the historical development, contemporary status, and functions of these languages, as well as potential scenarios for the future. Exploring the tension between language policies and linguistic realities in Singapore, the contributions in this volume capture the shifting educational, political, and societal priorities of the community through its past and contemporary present.
| Author | : Jeremie Bouchard |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2018-12-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0429849915 |
This collection brings together theory and ethnographic research from a range of national contexts to offer unique insights into the nature of agency in language policy and planning. Situated within a broader sociological framework, the book explores agentive processes at work in case studies from around the world, engaging in discussions of such key themes as language and identity, language ideologies, linguistic diversity in education, and language revitalization. Each chapter examines the ways in which decisions made at both the local and national level impact language use and in turn, the dynamic relationship between language use, policy, and practice in these contexts. Taken together, this volume advances our understanding of agency in language policy and planning and directions for future research, making this key reading for students and scholars in language and education, critical sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.
| Author | : Chun Han Wong |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2023-05-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1982185732 |
Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyses of official speeches and documents, a Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond.
| Author | : Jan Blommaert |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2010-12-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110808048 |
| Author | : Mirjam Schmalz |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2023-12-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110733803 |
This book is the first of its kind to provide an integrative look at World Englishes, (second) language acquisition, and sociolinguistics in a variety of contexts of English around the globe with a focus on the language of children and adolescents. It thus aims to bridge the paradigm gaps that have been identified between these approaches but have rarely been explored in greater detail. The range of topics includes the areas of first and second language acquisition; sociolinguistic variation and awareness; language use and choice; family language policies; language attitudes and perception; modelling children’s and adolescents’ language in World Englishes; the role of child language acquisition in processes of language change; as well as methodologies of eliciting speech and writing from children and adolescents. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and draws on psycholinguistic, corpus-linguistic, and ethnographic methodologies. What unites the contributions to the volume is that they all address the theoretical implications that a joint approach between World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition has, i.e. why it is fruitful and how it can contribute to a deeper understanding of the different research paradigms.
| Author | : Robert Kirkpatrick |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2015-11-27 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3319224646 |
This volume offers comprehensive 'state-of-the-art' overviews of educational policies concerning the teaching of English in a large number of Asian countries. Each contribution is written by a leading expert and gives a clear assessment of current policies and future trends. Starting with a description of the English education policies in the respective countries, the contributors then delve into the 'nuts and bolts' of the English education policies and how they play out in practice in the education system, in schools, in the curriculum, and in teaching. Topics covered include the balance between the acquisition of English and the national language, political, cultural, economic and technical factors that strengthen or weaken the learning of English.
| Author | : Sihua Liang |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2014-12-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3319126199 |
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.
| Author | : Valentina Cuccio |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2022-11-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 2832505341 |
