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Hui Zhang; Mark Fifer Seilhamer; Yin Ling Cheung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Responding to a recent call for interdisciplinary research into 'night studies', the present study attempts to put the nighttime at the centre of the sociolinguistic enquiry, seeking to explore how the nocturnal linguistic landscape (LL) differs from the diurnal LL by drawing on Singapore's Chinatown as the research site. A total of 1091 LL items…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Signs
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Huiling Cui; Xuesong Gao – European Journal of Education, 2024
In recent years, China has implemented a national language policy promoting the use of Putonghua (Standard Chinese) in ethnic minority schools. This study investigates how mesolevel institutions (i.e., schools) have responded to this macro-level national language policy change, and how the institutional policy changes have affected Korean-Chinese…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Congcong Xing; Guanglun Michael Mu; Deborah Henderson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With English hegemony sustained in 'multicultural' Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Universities, Sociology, Resilience (Psychology)