“I’m cantonese but I speak hokkien” : a case study of a Chinese Singaporean family.

• Main Author: Ng, Li Yan.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51262
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The purpose of this study was to investigate dialect usage and attitudes towards dialects – more specifically, the reasons for only certain dialects being passed down from generation to generation and the extent to which this might be an effect of Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC). A case st...