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A Study of Attitudes of Dialect Speakers Towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore

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 smal...

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Main Author: Ng, Patrick Chin Leong. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Linguistics,
Subjects:
Applied linguistics.
Chinese language.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Chinese.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3443-5
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Review of literature on Planning for Language
  • Chapter 3 Singapore: The contextual background
  • Chapter 4 Review of literature on the Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC)
  • Chapter 5 Quantitative analysis: Reported language use and attitudes
  • Chapter 6 Qualitative analysis: Views towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion.

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