The questionnaire has a long tradition of being employed as an instrument of attitude
elicitation, and early on in the development of language attitudes as a field of study, this …

This study examines the changing perceptions of Taiwan Mandarin (TM) among Chinese
mainlanders and how televised media contribute to the formation of language ideology. This …

This collection explores the ways in which women in academia from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotiation between linguistic discrimination …

Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping
social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China. This book is the first textbook to be …

Few previous studies have examined the impact of social class on language attitudes and
language use in mainland China. A total of 215 questionnaires were collected from a …

In this chapter, I describe my experience as an outsider, as a language learner and as a
multilingual and intercultural communication researcher with folk theories of language, folk …

Perceived ethnicity is known to bias perception of accentedness of non-native speakers, but
most existing research demonstrating this has been done on majority languages of North …

In the translation of dialect dialogues from Chinese films into English, it is often seen that the
elimination of non-standard features of the dialogues is a common practice, which inevitably …