Author: Russell YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Language Maintenance and Language Shift Among the Chinese on Taiwan
Author: Russell YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Attitudinal and Sociocultural Factors Influencing Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Language Usage Among the Chinese on Taiwan
Author: Russell Leslie YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sociolinguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Attitudinal and Sociocultural Factors Influencing Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Language Usage Among the Chinese on Taiwan
Author: Russell L. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Attitudinal and Sociocultural Factors Influencing Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and Language Usage Among the Chinese on Taiwan
Author: Russell Leslie YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Socio-political Aspects of Language Behaviour in Taiwan
Author: Cornelia NeumannPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638761169
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,7 (A-), Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course: Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics: a merger, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Seminar 'Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics: A Merger' included an intensive e-mail exchange with Taiwanese students. My keypal 'Cherlene', told about the linguistic diversity of her country. Besides, I had the opportunity to read the letters which were exchanged between my classmates and their assigned Taiwanese students. People in Taiwan have to deal with a multilingual society. Although Mandarin Chinese is the official language, there are in fact several more languages one is confronted with in everyday life. Cherlene pointed out that choice of code differs not only between social classes, ethnic communities and generations, but also between other domains of life such as school, university, jurisdiction, the media and advertising. Each of our e-mail partners was multi- or at least bilingual in Mandarin plus one or two other Chinese languages. Besides, all of them knew English or/and another European language. The reality of Taiwanese society requires the ability to switch codes flexibly according to the occasion. This complex situation is the result of political changes, power-shifts, two main, contradictory waves of language promotion, and a strict language policy by the government until the late 1980s. Consequently, it is indispensable to look at historical and social developments in order to understand and evaluate the present situation. This paper is based on Cherlene's first-hand information and the general impression received from the other e-mails. The linguistic information is embedded in a historic-political context, because I was especially interested in how such a situation could develop and how language use reflects power-relations.
Language, Society, and the State
Author: Gareth PricePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 161451464X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic data and a comparative-historical method the book illustrates how language mediates interactions between society and the state and becomes politicized as a result; how language, politics and power are intertwined processes; and how these processes are not isolated in institutions but socially embedded.
Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters
Author: Robert B. KaplanPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847690955
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation -- including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.
Language Maintenance and Language Shift Among Chinese American Young Adults in the Greater New York City Area
Author: Dongmei ZengPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language
Author: Picus Sizhi DingPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9812875948
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book presents multilingualism as a social phenomenon, which arises when speakers of a different language move to a new society and learn to speak the dominant language of the society. It offers case studies of Hokkien migrating families when they encounter new languages in Burma, Macao and San Francisco, showing how a family changes across generations from monolingual to bilingual/multilingual and back to monolingual. In the process language shift occurs as a result of transitional bilingualism. The dynamic status of Hokkien is also attested at the societal level in Singapore, Taiwan and south Fujian, the homeland of Hokkien.
Attitudinal and Sociocultural Factors Influencing Maintenance, Language Shift and Language Usage Among the Chinese on Taiwan
Author: Russell Leslie YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description