Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006)

Editor

Minglang Zhou | Dickinson College, Carlisle

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 16:2] 2006. 208 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 October 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.16.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Theorizing language contact, spread, and variation in status planning: A case study of Modern Standard Chinese Minglang Zhou	159–174
Nanjing language survey and the theory of speech community Daming Xu	175–196
Hypercorrection in Taiwan Mandarin Karen Steffen Chung	197–214
Cosmopolitan Mandarin: Linguistic practice of Chinese waiqi professionals Qing Zhang	215–235
Urban migration and functional bilingualism in Guangdong Province, China Ruiqin Miao and Jiaxuan Li	237–257
Language choices and industrialization: A case study of language use in Luoyang, China Jinyi Yang	259–277
Some observations on dialectal lexis interference in Putonghua: With a specific reference to question words and interrogative particles in wh-questions of Chengdu Putonghua Yunjuan He	279–298
Hong Kong written Chinese: Language change induced by language contact Dingxu Shi	299–318
Standard Chinese and the Xining dialect: The rise of an interdialectal standard Keith Dede	319–334
An analysis of the (u)-variation in the “Town Speech” of Lishui Jun Guo	335–349
Book Review
Cantonese as a Written Language: The Growth of a Written Language. by Don Snow Dana Scott Bourgerie	351–353
List of referees	355
Contents of Volume 16	357–358

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Communication Studies

Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006)

Cited by two other publications

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