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Language Attitude of Interlocutors Towards Dialect Users by Means of Verbal Guise Test and Interview

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Linxin Zhang1, *
1School of Education and English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315000, China
*Corresponding author. Email: heylz4@nottingham.edu.cn
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Linxin Zhang
Available Online 30 March 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220306.011How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Language attitude; Chinese dialect; Verbal-guised test; Baotou dialect
Abstract

In China, the co-existence of various kinds of regional dialects is relatively noticeable. Since the promotion policy of Mandarin declared by the Chinese government, the amount of the speaker of Mandarin has been experiencing a tremendous increase. Therefore, the contact between Mandarin and different local dialects is unavoidable during this process. As a consequence, the mandarin articulation of these speakers is likely to be influenced by their regional dialects. Based on this premise, the interlocutor of these dialectal Mandarin speakers may generate different attitudes towards them, comparing to those towards the standard Mandarin speakers. Therefore, this research dissected the attitude towards one dialect accented Mandarin by employing the techniques of verbal guise test and interview, whose participants mainly consist of the students at the university of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Through the result of the test and interview, this research discovered that the utterance of the speaker did not affect the impression of social status and the dispositional features of the speaker. However, the non-standard speech of the accented mandarin may result in the negative feeling of unintelligibility and unattractiveness.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 March 2022
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10.2991/assehr.k.220306.011
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2352-5398
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10.2991/assehr.k.220306.011How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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