عنوان

Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain

شماره

TLets332970

عنوان اصلي

Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Li, Wei

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Newcastle University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1992

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Newcastle University

امتياز متن

1992

متن يادداشت

The Chinese are the third largest non-indigenous ethnic minority in Britain, but have hitherto figured little in sociolinguistic research. The aim of this thesis is to examine patterns of language choice by three generations of Chinese/English bilingual speakers in the Chinese community on Tyneside in the North East of England. The data for this analysis is collected within a broadly ethnographic framework, with attention to particularly relevant aspects of Chinese culture and informal social organisation. Specific issues investigated in the thesis include: i) degree and patterning of (Chinese/English) bilingualism within the Tyneside Chinese community; ii) strategies whereby people employ two different languages in conversational interaction; .iii) social mechanisms underlying language choice at both the community and interactional level. As well as providing systematic and a substantial amount of empirical data, the thesis aims to develop a social model, utilising the concept of social network, which can account for the relationship between code-switching and language choice by individual speakers, and for the relation of both to the broader social, economic and political context. Thus, while the exposition is presented primarily with reference to the example of the Tyneside Chinese community, it is intended to be applicable to a range of bilingual situations as well as Chinese communities elsewhere.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociolinguistics

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Li, Wei

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Newcastle University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y