33.3386, Books: The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community: Hu

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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:43:54
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community: Hu

 


Title: The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech
Community 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-sociolinguistics-of-rhotacization-in-the-beijing-speech-community 


Author: Han Hu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934094 Pages: 183 Price: Europe EURO 30


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the social, attitudinal, and linguistic
mechanisms behind language choice and language change in postmodern urban
China. More specifically, it investigates the language choice, use and
pronunciation norm formation of rhotacization in Beijing, the country’s
capital city, due to the normative forces of urbanization, Standard Chinese,
native dialects, and the expression of belonging. This dissertation studies
the language attitude towards and language use of rhotacization in the Beijing
Speech Community in quality and quantity, with the methods of sociolinguistics
and phonetics.

The language attitude study shows that both Beijing native speakers and
migrants report the perceived salience of rhotacization in the Beijing Speech
Community and rhotacization imitation by migrants. In addition, both native
and migrant respondents associate migrants with the upwards social mobility in
Beijing, in the background of Standard Chinese promotion and influx of
migrants. The prestige of Standard Chinse, the difficulty of learning
rhotacization, and the non-necessity of using Beijing Mandarin are also
reported.

An important result in the phonetic study demonstrates that, as an important
feature in both Beijing Mandarin and Standard Chinese, rhotacization is
undergoing the decline of both tokens and types in native speakers’ natural
speech. However, compared to migrants, Beijing native speakers still produce
the biggest number of rhotacization tokens, types and variants.

Together, this dissertation reveals the social, attitudinal and linguistic
forces on language choices and pronunciation norms formation in postmodern
urban settings, advancing our understanding of the mechanisms from various
aspects.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Language Family(ies): Chinese


Written In: English  (eng)

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