Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language : A Comparative Study of Language Shift and Maintenance Across National Borders / / by Picus Sizhi Ding

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910253310503321
• Autore: Ding Picus Sizhi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• ISBN: 981-287-594-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (118 p.)
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Linguistics, , 2197-0009
• Disciplina: 495.17
• Soggetti: Language and languages; Asian Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Multilingualism in drifting families -- 2.1 The overall migration history of a Hokkien family -- 2.2 The first generation: from Hokkien to Burma -- 2.3 Case I in the second generation: from Burma to Macao -- 2.4 Case II in the second generation: from Burma to U.S.A -- 2.5 Case III in the second generation: from Burma to Macao -- 2.6 Multilingualism and bilingualism in the families -- 2.7 Hokkien as a legacy of the drifting families -- 3. The rise and fall of Hokkien in Singapore -- 3.1 The glorious days of Hokkien in Singapore -- 3.2 Effects of language policy: the Speak Mandarin Campaign -- 3.3 Bilingualism in the new generation of Hokkien Singaporeans -- 3.4 The current status of Hokkien in Singapore -- 4. Taiwan: the haven for Hokkien? -- 4.1 The spread of Hokkien from Fujian to Taiwan -- 4.2 Loss of dominant status to Japanese and Mandarin -- 4.3 Language revitalization in Taiwan: reconstructing multilingualism -- 4.4 The future of Hokkien in Taiwan -- 5. The fate of Hokkien in its homeland -- 5.1 The status of Hokkien since 1949 -- 5.2 Promotion of Mandarin in mainland China -- 5.3 Hokkien as an endangered topolect under transitional bilingualism -- 6. Conclusion .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.