Essays about: "Cantonese"

Found 5 essays containing the word Cantonese.

  1. 1. Cantonese in a Mandarin China : Language ideology and nationalism in China’s language policy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Victor Norderstål; [2023]
    Keywords : Language ideology; language policy; nationalism; Cantonese; Mandarin; Guangdong;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explain the ideological characteristics of China’s language laws. Using theoretical definitions of language ideology, the study analysed two language provisions, China’s national language law and the language law of Guangdong province, with the goal of understanding the ideology of China’s language policy. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cross-Lingual and Genre-Supervised Parsing and Tagging for Low-Resource Spoken Data

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Iliana Fosteri; [2023]
    Keywords : dependency parsing; part-of-speech tagging; low-resource languages; transcribed speech; large language models; cross-lingual learning; transfer learning; multi-task learning; Universal Dependencies;

    Abstract : Dealing with low-resource languages is a challenging task, because of the absence of sufficient data to train machine-learning models to make predictions on these languages. One way to deal with this problem is to use data from higher-resource languages, which enables the transfer of learning from these languages to the low-resource target ones. READ MORE

  4. 3. Could there be Mutual Learning in the Recycling Industrybetween a Small Cantonese Company anda Large Swedish Company? : The case study of Swedish Stena Metal and Cantonese Litian

    University essay from Avdelningen för ekonomi

    Author : Yuli Wang; Siqi Lin; [2010]
    Keywords : Competitive advantage; Recycling business; R D;

    Abstract : It aims at find out the shortage of Value chain activities should be improved of Chinese little recycle companies, through a comparative analysis of value chain activities of a laggard and advanced recycle company. And set the steps to identify opportunities for little recycle companies to gain competitive from low cost and add-value. READ MORE

  5. 4. Language attitudes in the People’s Republic of China’s leading English-language newspaper, China Daily

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Petter Andersson; [2008]
    Keywords : : language planning; the PRC; Putonghua; Shanghai dialect; Cantonese and English;

    Abstract : Since time immemorial, various governments in China have attempted to promulgate writing reforms and speech reforms in order to unite the nation, mostly for political gain. The aim of this paper is to discover and analyze some language issues in the People’s Republic of China, specifically attitudes and comments on spoken usage of Putonghua (also called Modern Standard Chinese), Shanghai dialect, Cantonese and English by researching China Daily’s online newspaper article archive. READ MORE

  6. 5. Codeswitching in print advertisements in Hong Kong and Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Carrie Leung; [2006]
    Keywords : Sociolinguistics; Codeswitching; Advertising; Bilingualism; Hong Kong; Cantonese - kantonesiska; Swedish - svenska; Kodväxling; Tvåspråkighet; Reklamspråk; Språkbyte; Applied linguistics; foreign languages teaching; sociolinguistics; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present study focuses on the codeswitching phenomenon in Hong Kong and Swedish print newspaper advertisements. With a contrastive analysis of code-switched advertisements from Hong Kong and Sweden, this paper will also describe the patterns and structures of Cantonese-English and Swedish-English codeswitchings, what are mixed and the reasons why people code-switch. READ MORE