Donald Snow

Journal article Global Chinese · April 1, 2023 In the pre-modern era, women in the Chaoshan region of southeastern China had a tradition of learning and performing long narrative songs. From the mid-1800s into the mid-1900s these songs were widely produced by local publishing houses in inexpensive wood ... Full text Cite

A short history of written Wu, Part II: Written Shanghainese

Journal article Global Chinese · September 1, 2018 The recent publication of the novel Magnificent Flowers (Fan Hua) has attracted attention not only because of critical acclaim and market success, but also because of its use of Shanghainese. While Magnificent Flowers is the most notable recent book to mak ... Full text Open Access Cite

A short history of written Wu, Part I: Written Suzhounese

Journal article Global Chinese · April 1, 2018 In two articles published in the 1920s, Hu Shi argued that China's vernacular literature movement should encompass not only literature written in Mandarin but also other regional languages in China, and suggested that Wu, particularly Suzhounese, was the r ... Full text Cite

English teaching, intercultural competence, and critical incident exercises

Journal article Language and Intercultural Communication · April 3, 2015 Critical incident exercises (CIEs) are increasingly used in English courses, and there seems little doubt that in addition to providing English practice opportunities CIEs also help learners build intercultural competence. The question is: What precise asp ... Full text Cite

Missionaries and written Chaoshanese

Journal article Global Chinese · January 1, 2015 From the 1870s into the 1920s, Baptist and Presbyterian missionaries in the Chaoshan region devoted a substantial amount of time and effort to creating a body of Christian texts in written forms of Chaoshanese, and also educating Chinese Christians in this ... Full text Cite

Towards a theory of vernacularisation: insights from written Chinese vernaculars

Journal article Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · October 2013 Full text Open Access Cite

Revisiting Ferguson's defining cases of diglossia

Journal article Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · February 2013 Full text Cite

Diglossia in East Asia

Journal article Journal of Asian Pacific Communication · January 22, 2010 This article examines the most extensive case of diglossia in history, that of diglossia in East Asia. In pre-modern times, Classical Chinese functioned as the high (H) language variety in not only China, but also Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and thi ... Full text Cite

Hong Kong and modern diglossia

Journal article International Journal of the Sociology of Language · January 2010 Full text Cite

Cantonese as written standard?

Journal article Journal of Asian Pacific Communication · July 31, 2008 “Standard language” status is a relative construct defined by a variety of attributes rather than by any single criteria. This paper uses the taxonomy of standard language attributes presented in Downes 1998 as a framework for examining the degree ... Full text Cite

affective factors and interpretive judgments in intercultural encounters

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