Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family: Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in BritainMultilingual Matters, 1994 - 221 pagine It is almost a cliché now that the Chinese are the least known and least understood of all Britain's ethnic minorities, despite the fact that they are one of the longest-established ethnic communities in the UK. So far very few attempts have been made which go beyond the stereotypes that the Chinese are 'self-contained' and 'self-sufficient'. Public perceptions have largely ignored the heterogeneity of the British Chinese population. In this first book-length study of the Chinese community in Britain, Dr Li Wei provides a detailed ethnography of communication in ten Chinese immigrant families in the North East of England. He focuses on generational changes in language choice preferences and code-switching strategies. As well as offering a substantial amount of systematically-collected empirical data, the study aims to develop a social model, using the concept of 'social network', which accounts for the relationship between community norms of language use and conversational strategies of 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 a Chinese community in Britain, it is applicable to a range of bilingual situations, especially immigrant communities, as well as Chinese communities elsewhere. |
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... speaker variations in language choice ( e.g. speakers report adapting language choices to home , school and / or block ) , on the whole the most significant difference exists between individual speakers , especially between children in ...
... speaker variations in language choice ( e.g. speakers report adapting language choices to home , school and / or block ) , on the whole the most significant difference exists between individual speakers , especially between children in ...
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... sound like another . Second , it operates diachronically for individual speakers who , over time , shift their general speech patterns to sound like other speakers ( e.g. after moving to a different dialect region ) . Third , it oper ...
... sound like another . Second , it operates diachronically for individual speakers who , over time , shift their general speech patterns to sound like other speakers ( e.g. after moving to a different dialect region ) . Third , it oper ...
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... speakers . An examination of the network indices of these ' anomalous ' speakers reveals that they all have relatively fewer ethnic ties - one of the ... individual speakers . The basic idea was SOCIAL NETWORKS AND LANGUAGE CHOICE 143.
... speakers . An examination of the network indices of these ' anomalous ' speakers reveals that they all have relatively fewer ethnic ties - one of the ... individual speakers . The basic idea was SOCIAL NETWORKS AND LANGUAGE CHOICE 143.
Sommario
Chinese Communities in Britain | 37 |
Participant Observation in a Chinese Community | 68 |
Patterns of Language Choice and Language Shift | 88 |
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