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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wang, Weihong – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
As a linguistically heterogeneous nation, China has 290 languages and nearly 2000 distinct "fangyans" (dialects or subdialects) with "Putonghua" as the national language. These languages and language varieties are hierarchically ranked, based on their wider communicative and socioeconomic values. This paper reports on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese