Southern Min Hokkien As a Migrating Language: A Comparative Study of Language Shift and Maintenance Across National Borders

Ding, Picus Sizhi

ISBN 10: 981287593X / ISBN 13: 9789812875938

Editore: Springer Verlag, 2015

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• Titolo: Southern Min Hokkien As a Migrating Language: A Comparative Study of Language Shift and Maintenance Across National Borders
• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 981287593X
• ISBN 13: 9789812875938
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New
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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.