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“What a standard Taiwan Mandarin accent”: Online metalinguistic commentary on linguistic performances of non-native Chinese speakers
This study explores metadiscourse about Chinese language varieties used by two non-native Chinese speakers on Bilibili through the lens of citizen sociolinguistics. Drawing on a meaning-based content analysis, we analyze danmu comments by Chinese internet users in response to a video featuring the non-native speakers’ linguistic performances. The findings reveal that Chinese mainlanders express favorable attitudes towards the non-native speaker who demonstrated proficiency in Taiwan Mandarin, while expressing prejudices against the non-native speaker whose accent presented comprehension challenges. The native Chinese speakers also experienced linguistic insecurity when confronted with non-native speech. These findings are interpreted in terms of linguistic ownership, orders of indexicality, and linguistic discrimination, highlighting the relationship between language use and social values in a digitally mediated environment in Mainland China.
期刊介绍:
This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.