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dc.contributor.authorKirkpatrick, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T23:55:05Z
dc.date.available2019-03-14T23:55:05Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn2199-4382
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/glochi-2015-1004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141855
dc.description.abstractA question which is frequently asked in discussions about the future roles of English and Chinese (Modern Standard Chinese or Putonghua and often also referred to as Mandarin) in the Asia-Pacific region is whether Chinese will replace English as the primary regional language or lingua franca. In this article, I shall first consider the roles that each language is playing in China itself and within the Asia-Pacific region. I shall argue that it is important to take these languages together, as the combination of Modern Standard Chinese and English is threatening regional languages, including other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese. In dealing with these two major languages in combination, I shall also consider how each language has influenced and continues to influence the other linguistically, illustrating this with examples at the levels of lexis, syntax, rhetoric and pragmatic norms. I shall conclude by tentatively suggesting how the roles of these two languages may develop in future, and the potential sociolinguistic consequences of this.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageenglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom85
dc.relation.ispartofpageto110
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Chinese
dc.relation.ispartofvolume1
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4703
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470399
dc.titleChinese English or English Chinese?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKirkpatrick, Andy A.


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