Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China [electronic resource] : A Linguistic Ethnography / by Sihua Liang.

Part I:  Introduction: Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Backgrounds -- Dialect Issues in Multilingual China: A Dog That Has Barked -- The Politics and Sociolinguistics of Chinese Dialects -- Part II:  Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks -- Researching Language Attitudes in Multilingual China -- Part III:  Becoming Members of a Multidialectal City -- "Mother Tongues" of a Multidialectal City -- Language Socialisation in Multidialectal Households: a Case Study -- Part IV: Putonghua and Regional Dialects at School -- Language Socialisation in Educational Institutions -- Teachers' Attitudes towards Dialects in School -- Part V: Discussion and Reflection -- Problematizing the Monolingual Norm in a Multidialectal City -- Schools in the Era of Multilingualism -- Language Attitudes in Heteroglossia: Methodological Reflections -- Appendix I: The Students' Profiles -- Appendix II: The Schools and the Teachers' Profiles.