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Direct linkBokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Wee, Lionel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
Singapore's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign has been largely successful in shifting the language patterns of its Chinese citizens from Chinese dialects to Mandarin in all sectors. However, there has been a notable exception: the effort to have Chinese Singaporeans give their children Mandarin names, rather than dialect ones. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
