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Chinese Listeners’ Attitudes Towards Shanghai-accented Standard Chinese Across Five Regions

From the book Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
Liqin Xiong and Gitte Kristiansen
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733945-023

Abstract

In this chapter we describe the first large-scale verbal guise experiment to explore Chinese listeners’ attitudes towards Standard Chinese accents in mainland China. 1000 listeners across five regions (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Liaoning and Sichuan) took part in this experiment, in which they were asked to listen to short audio-recordings and rate the speakers on the seven traits of a fivepoint semantic differential scale. The present study reports findings on evaluations of Shanghai-accented Standard Chinese. It is found that Guangdong listeners diverge from those from Mandarin speaking regions (excluding Beijing) while Shanghai listeners converge with those from Mandarin speaking regions (excluding Liaoning). There were certain disagreements among listeners from Northern Mandarin speaking regions.

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
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Frontmatter
Contents
Cognitive Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century
Lexical Variation in Chinese Climbing Verb
Elicitation of Basic PUT&TAKE Verbs – An Experimental Approach
De Nagel or de Spijker op de Kop?
Keywords and Onomasiology
Digital Games as a Source of English Vocabulary for Finnish Writers
Frame Semantics Variation
Framing in American and British Governmental Discourse about Covid-19
The Importance of Context in CMT
Variation and Socio-cultural Embodiment in Metaphors for Social Change
Variational Patterns of LOVE in Hungarian
Profiles Visiting Procrustes
Exploring the Use of Levenshtein Distances to Calculate the Intelligibility of Foreignaccented Speech
Regional Variation in the Polish Discourses of Collective Memory
Language Variation in Dialect-standard Contact Situations
Scoring with Token-based Models
The Sociolinguistics of the Neo-Latin Word dialectus
A Corpus-Based Approach to Conceptual History of Ancient Greek
A Sociopragmatic Account of the se Passive in (pre-)Classical Spanish
System and Variation in the Dutch Modals
Indestructible Insights
Complexity in Complementation
Chinese Listeners’ Attitudes Towards Shanghai-accented Standard Chinese Across Five Regions
Dialect Divergence at the State Border
Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Development
Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Northeastern Peninsular Romance Frontier Varieties
Palatalization: Variation and Social Meaning
Lache, Giere, Boeie
From Big Brother to IKEA
Does Standardization Affect the Type of Motivating Factors that Determine Language Variation?
Register Variation in a Cognitive (Socio)linguistics Perspective
Intra- and Inter-textual Syntactic Priming in Original and Translated English
Categoriality in the English Gerund System
Metonymies in Sociocognitive Linguistics – a Plea for “Normal Science”
Speakers, Languages, and Multilingual Thank You Slides
Cognitive Sociolinguistic Studies of African English
Through the Linguistic Silk Road
Revisiting the Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach to Pluricentricity
Cognitive Sociolinguistics from the Perspective of Recontextualization
Sacred and Profane
Historical Cognitive Sociolinguistics
How to Understand “Integration” in the Context of EU Migration
Revisiting the Retranslation Hypothesis Supported by Insights in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Complexity
Monitoring the Pretence
Laboratory Sociolinguistics
Guessing Words
Changing Preferences in Cultural References
A Usage-based Approach to Persistent Spelling Errors
Applying Behavioural Profiles to Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Speaker Design Goes Construction Grammar
Index
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