A Study of Attitudes of Dialect Speakers Towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore
This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers to
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Patrick Chin Leong Ng
A Study of Attitudes of Dialect Speakers Towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore
123
Patrick Chin Leong Ng University of Niigata Prefecture Niigata-shi, Niigata Japan
ISSN 2197-0009 SpringerBriefs in Linguistics ISBN 978-981-10-3441-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3443-5
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Foreword
The phenomenon of language defies simple description or categorization. Whether one chooses to think of language as a kind of abstract system of relationships between sounds, morphemes, words and sentences, or as a set of language practices of individuals interacting with one another, it would be misguided to think that one can fully do justice to the phenomenon of language. Language is too multi-faceted to be completely understood in terms of any one intellectual tradition or any one methodology. The university-based discipline of linguistics, even with its relatively narrow focus of interest, has given rise to a plethora of sub-disciplines, competing methods, and alternative understandings of language. Linguistics is characterized more by the proliferation of competing approaches than by convergence of approaches towards one all-encompassing theory of language. The study of language in a society is one further example of just how complex and challenging the phenomenon of
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