Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese varieties in Singapore

IF 0.5 Q4 COMMUNICATION
Francesco Cavallaro, M. Seilhamer, Yen Yee. Ho, B. C. Ng
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Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the attitudes of Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese nationals residing in Singapore to varieties of Mandarin Chinese. 64 Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants took matched and verbal-guise tests, evaluating recorded speakers of two varieties of Singapore Mandarin (standard and colloquial) and the variety spoken in the PRC on status and solidarity traits. These evaluations were followed by optional questionnaire items intended to probe for additional more insights into the participants’ attitudes and perceptions of one another. Both Singaporean Chinese and Chinese national participants assigned higher status to the PRC’s variety of Mandarin. Attitudes toward the two varieties of Singapore Mandarin, however, varied, with Singaporeans rating the standard variety higher than the colloquial variety on all traits and Chinese nationals favouring the colloquial variety. Interestingly, for all three varieties of Mandarin, solidarity traits were rated higher than status traits by all participants, suggesting that, in Singapore, Mandarin Chinese is now viewed more as a language of solidarity than status.
新加坡对普通话变体的态度
本研究旨在揭示新加坡华人和居住在新加坡的华人对各种汉语的态度。64名新加坡华人和中国公民参加了配对和语言伪装测试,评估了两种新加坡普通话(标准普通话和口语普通话)和中华人民共和国普通话的记录使用者的地位和团结特征。这些评估之后是可选的问卷项目,旨在进一步深入了解参与者对彼此的态度和看法。新加坡华人和中国公民都对中华人民共和国的普通话给予了更高的地位。然而,人们对新加坡普通话的两种变体的态度各不相同,新加坡人对标准变体的所有特征的评价都高于口语变体,而中国人更喜欢口语变体。有趣的是,对于所有三种普通话,所有参与者对团结特征的评分都高于地位特征,这表明在新加坡,普通话现在更多地被视为一种团结而非地位的语言。
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CiteScore
1.40
自引率
14.30%
发文量
26
期刊介绍: The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication studies in the Asian Pacific. Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific.
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