This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two
language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has often been considered a monolithic, monolingual
state but, in fact, it is linguistically and culturally diverse. Despite the size, there is still a lack …

This study measures languages attitudes of 82 college students in Shanghai and
Guangzhou, where language planning has promoted Putonghua (PTH) over local varieties …

Cantonese and non-Cantonese students of the Guangzhou (Canton) Foreign Language
Institute took part in a matched-guise experiment, expressing judgments about two samples …

This paper reports the findings of a study that investigates the attitudes of 555 boys and 493
girls towards the three official spoken languages used in postcolonial Hong Kong (ie …

The present study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine
language attitudes and ideologies of university students in Shanghai, China. The research …

As the result of language planning, half of the one hundred million Chinese ethnic minority
nationality (EMN) population speak some variety of Putonghua (PTH) as a first or second …

Following up ethnographic observations that indicated residents of Xining in Qinghai
Province generally had low regard for the local dialect, this study is a quantitative …

Four years after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China, a survey
was conducted in 2001 to examine the attitudes of students toward Cantonese (the …

This article examines the relation between social class and language attitudes through a
triangulated study that analyses the attitudes of 836 secondary school students from different …