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SUMMARY:忌廉湯 [gei lim tong]\, 奶油浓汤 (nai you nong tang) and 
 ‘cream soup’: the collection\, representation and analysis of multidia
 lectal data for a study of language attitudes in Guangzhou\, China - Sihua
  Liang\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20120220T170000Z
DTEND:20120220T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:This talk derives from the speaker’s Ph.D. project which exp
 lores the language attitudes towards dialects in primary schools through l
 ooking at language choices in interaction from a language socialisation pe
 rspective. The setting of the project is the city of Guangzhou\, a large u
 rban centre in Southern China\, where both individual and societal multidi
 alectalism have undergone significant changes during the past decades of m
 odernisation\, migration\, and language policy changes. Conducting an ethn
 ographic language-attitude study in such a setting is both exciting and ch
 allenging. Using data from the study\, this talk aims to unfold some of th
 e important ideological\, conceptual and methodological challenges in the 
 process of collection\, representation and analysis of rich ethnographic a
 nd multidialectal data. Main issues to be discussed include theoretical an
 d ideological issues in choosing terminology and orthographies\, practical
  difficulties in (re)presenting multidialectal data and the interpretation
  of such data. Theoretical implications of these challenges on the main st
 udy will be discussed.  \n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om GS5
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