Three Generations, Two Languages, One Family: Language Choice and Language Shift in a Chinese Community in BritainMultilingual Matters, 1994 - 221 pages This book offers a sociolinguistic study of the Chinese community in Britain. It focuses on generational changes in language choice and code-switching patterns of Chinese immigrant families. The social network model developed in the study is intended to account 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. |
Table des matières
Chinese Communities in Britain | 37 |
Participant Observation in a Chinese Community | 68 |
Patterns of Language Choice and Language Shift | 88 |
Social Networks and Variations in Language Choice | 117 |
Conversational Codeswitching | 151 |
Summary and Conclusion | 179 |
Information on the Speaker Sample | 188 |
Social Network Scores | 199 |
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analysis Auer bilingual British-born Cantonese CE CE CE Chapter child Chinese and English Chinese emigrants Chinese families Chinese language Chinese monolingual Chinese-dominant code-switching contacts context contextualisation cue contrast conversation correlation dialect different language choice diglossia discourse discussed domain English-dominant ethnic index example exchange networks family members female speakers fieldwork First-generation emigrant GH GH guage choice Gumperz H GH H H H Hong Kong individual speakers inter-speaker interactive networks interlocutors language ability scores language behaviour language choice patterns language shift male and female male grandparents Males Females mean age micro-interactional Milroy networks and language Newcastle upon Tyne non-Chinese non-family members norms organisation parents participant observation passive Pattern 1 Pattern patterns of language peer peer-group perspective Poplack relations relationships Sankoff scales social network sociolinguistic speak Speaker number speakers Average Chinese Spoken Chinese Spoken English strategies structure switching Table tion turn Tyneside Chinese community types written Chinese