Tracking Language Attitudes in Postcolonial Hong Kong: An Interplay of Localization, Mainlandization, and Internationalization

Autor/in	Lai, Ling Mee
Titel	Tracking Language Attitudes in Postcolonial Hong Kong: An Interplay of Localization, Mainlandization, and Internationalization
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 31 (2012) 1, S.83-111 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
Schlagwörter	Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Mandarin Chinese; Followup Studies; Surveys; Student Attitudes; Social Change; English (Second Language); Sino Tibetan Languages; Foreign Policy; Attitude Change; Multilingualism; Comparative Analysis; Futures (of Society); Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverhalten; Ausland; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Schülerverhalten; Sozialer Wandel; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Außenpolitik; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Future; Society; Zukunft; Hongkong
Abstract	Four years after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China, a survey was conducted in 2001 to examine the attitudes of students toward Cantonese (the vernacular language), English (the colonizer's and international language), and Putonghua (the new ruler's language) in the early postcolonial era of Hong Kong. Eight years after, as Hong Kong moved into the second decade after the political handover, which has been characterized by an intense interplay of localization, mainlandization, and internationalization, a follow-up study was launched in 2009 to trace the changes of language attitudes over the past years. This paper reports on a comparison between the results of the two surveys, which shows "Pragmatic trilingualism" as a future trend for the younger generation of Hong Kong. Having experienced the postcolonial changes for twelve years, informants of the 2009 study also showed significantly more positive attitudes toward Putonghua than their counterparts in 2001, as the language starts to take root in Hong Kong society along with the huge economic and demographic power of China. (Contains 10 tables and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10