(DOWNLOAD) "Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language" by Picus Sizhi Ding ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language
- Author : Picus Sizhi Ding
- Release Date : January 17, 2015
- Genre: Foreign Languages,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2156 KB
Description
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.
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