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Putonghua as “admission ticket” to linguistic market in minority regions in China

Language policy, 2019-02, Vol.18 (1), p.17-37

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Title:
Putonghua as “admission ticket” to linguistic market in minority regions in China
Author: Xu, Hao
Subjects: Applied Linguistics ; Bilingualism ; Capital ; Case studies ; Competence ; Correlation ; Cultural Capital ; Foreign Countries ; Identification (Psychology) ; Interaction ; Interpersonal Relationship ; Investments ; Language ; Language Education ; Language Minorities ; Language Skills ; Language Usage ; Linguistic competence ; Linguistic identity ; Linguistics ; Mandarin ; Mandarin Chinese ; Markets ; Minority languages ; Monolingualism ; Multilingualism ; Original Paper ; Policy making ; Political Science ; Regions ; Social capital ; Social interaction ; Social Sciences ; Social Status ; Sociolinguistics
Is Part Of: Language policy, 2019-02, Vol.18 (1), p.17-37
Description: This article reports on a multiple-case study that investigates the impact of the promotion of Putonghua on individuals’ social interactions and language identities in multilingual minority regions in China. Drawing on the theory of linguistic market, the study focuses on what mediates individuals’ access to the linguistic market. The 24 participants, from multilingual minority regions of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia in China, had different linguistic repertoires (monolingual vs. bilingual), and lived in different sociolinguistic contexts where Putonghua or minority language dominates. Data were collected through prolonged, semi-structured interviews and workplace observations. The analysis of data revealed the complex interrelations between people’s language competence as linguistic capital, their exchange of and investment in such capital, and the formation and transformation of their identities. The study also uncovers the role of Putonghua as a high-status language in providing or prohibiting access of other linguistic capitals to the linguistic market, depending on the individual’s competence in Putonghua. In other words, competence in Putonghua serves as the “admission ticket” to the linguistic market, without which the linguistic capitals from other languages cannot be allowed in and exchanged. Therefore, it is important for policy makers to seriously reconsider the statuses of minority languages since Putonghua serves a managing role in the linguistic market.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1568-4555
EISSN: 1573-1863
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-018-9462-x
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Putonghua as “admission ticket” to linguistic market in minority regions in China

Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 ;Language Policy is a copyright of Springer, (2018). All Rights Reserved. ;ISSN: 1568-4555 ;EISSN: 1573-1863 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10993-018-9462-x

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