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

• Main Author: Ng, Patrick Chin Leong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Chinese language.; Sociolinguistics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811034435
• ISSN: 2197-0009
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3443-5
• Physical Description: XV, 81 p. 1 illus. online resource.

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 &q...