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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
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Poon, Anita Y. K. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in Hong Kong from a historical perspective. Hong Kong has evolved in the past 167 years from a small fishing port to an international financial centre which forms part of a financial network hailed by "Time Magazine" as Ny.Lon.Kong (i.e. New York-London-Hong Kong). Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese