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Tracking Language Attitudes in Postcolonial Hong Kong: An Interplay of Localization, Mainlandization, and Internationalization
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Lai, Ling Mee – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
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 vernacular language), English (the colonizer's and international language), and Putonghua (the new ruler's language) in the early postcolonial era of Hong Kong. Eight years…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Followup Studies