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Duff, Patricia A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This commentary foregrounds factors and tensions involved in intergenerational language socialization in Chinese-speaking communities and homes. Of particular interest is the manner in which younger generations in homes in which other Chinese dialects ("fangyans") are spoken almost invariably seem to be shifting to Mandarin, and some of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Informal Education, Dialects, Social Integration