Language Attitudes at the Handover: Communication and Identity in 1997 Hong Kong
Language Attitudes at the Handover: Communication and Identity in 1997 Hong Kong
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回归时的语言态度：1997 年香港的沟通与认同
DOI：
10.1075/eww.18.2.03hyl
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
Ken Hyland
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作者：
Ken Hyland
英国对香港长达150年的殖民统治于1997年6月结束，香港回归中国。由于语言的命运与社会中不同群体的权力密切相关，这种宪法转型提出了语言和身份的重要问题。目前，英语继续在商业和行政管理中发挥重要作用，而粤语是一个高度凝聚力和独立社区的通用语。然而，殖民地语言在多大程度上是领土特性的组成部分，以及它能否继续发挥有影响的作用，还有待观察。统一可能会对语言态度和使用产生相当大的影响，普通话作为中国大陆的官方语言，正在挑战英语和广东话作为公共领域的高地位语言。本文在Pierson et al.（1980）和Pennington & Yue（1994）先前研究的基础上，研究了移交所带来的语言态度的变化。我们对900名香港本科生进行了问卷调查，以了解学生对语言和文化认同、社会、情感和工具态度的看法，以及对政治过渡时期语言使用的一般预测。
Britain's 150 year colonial administration of Hong Kong came to an end in June 1997 when the territory reverted to Chinese sovereignty. Because the fate of languages is closely related to the power of different groups in a society, this constitutional transition raises important issues of language and identity. At present English continues to play an important role in business and administration while Cantonese is the lingua franca of a highly cohesive and independent community. However, the extent to which the colonial language is a component of the Territory's identity, and the prospect of it retaining an influential role, remains to be seen. Reunification is likely to have a considerable impact on language attitudes and use with Putonghua, the official language of mainland China, emerging to challenge English and Cantonese as a high status language in public domains. This paper builds on previous studies by Pierson et al. (1980) and Pennington & Yue (1994) to examine the changing language attitudes brought about by the handover. A questionnaire was administered to 900 Hong Kong undergraduates to discover students' perspectives on language and cultural identity, social, affective and instrumental attitudes and general predictions for language use with a view towards the political transition.