“我们都是 kaki lang!” : language attitudes of Hokkien Singaporean young adults

• Main Author: Chan, Annabelle, Shi En
• Other Authors: Francesco Cavallaro
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78996
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As part of the Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC) launched by the Singapore government in 1979, Chinese vernaculars have been depicted as underdeveloped language varieties and its use discouraged. Mandarin was promoted in their place primarily to unify what was then a linguistically diverse Chinese commu...