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Language Socialisation in Multidialectal Households: A Case Study

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Using a case study that focuses on home language socialization practices, this chapter investigates the third subset of research questions: What are the students’ usual language practices at home? How are they socialised to make such language choices? How do they justify their choices? We examine how parents in a migrant family deal with the sociolinguistic challenges for their child in such a multidialectal city as Guangzhou, and how family language policy may influence the child’s language use and attitudes.

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    As the exact number of these “pure local” people is unattainable from the censuses, the percentage of Hukou population is used instead. Presumably, the number of people having a Guangzhou Hukou is greater than that of “pure locals”, because migrants with social resources can obtain a Guangzhou Hukou.

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  1. School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Sihua (斯华) Liang (梁)

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Liang (梁), S. (2015). Language Socialisation in Multidialectal Households: A Case Study. In: Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12619-7_5

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