By Li Wei
This ebook deals a sociolinguistic research of the chinese language group in Britain. It specializes in generational adjustments in language selection and code-switching styles of chinese language immigrant households. The "social community" version built within the research is meant to account for the connection among group norms of language use and conversational concepts of person audio system, and for the relation of either to the wider social, fiscal and political context.
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G. O'Neill, 1972). But there could be no greater contrast between this small number of intellectual elite and the large groups of seamen and labourers. Contacts between them were extremely limited, if they existed at all (Taylor, 1987). During the inter-war years, the Chinese population in Britain declined considerably. Pre and post-War demolition for urban redevelopment led to the dispersal of the two largest Chinese settlements in London and Liverpool away from the original dockland areas (Broady, 1955; Ng, 1968; May, 1978; O'Neill, 1972).
English is largely confined to law, government, international trade, and some aspects of education and the media (Luke & Richards, 1982; Gibbons, 1987). As for the Chinese language, it is useful first of all to make a distinction between the spoken and written form. Spoken Chinese comprises a large number of related varieties, known to the Chinese as Fangyan (regional language). Traditionally, the Chinese Fangyan are classified into seven groups in terms of geographic distribution and linguistic-structural affiliation.
1 The derivation of intra-speaker from inter-speaker variation Source: Adapted from Bell, 1984: 152 would not otherwise be accessible to the public. 6 This point will be discussed further in Chapter 3. Summary In this chapter, I have discussed three main perspectives on bilingualism and language choice. These three perspectives are characterised by their respective views on the relationship between social structures and the individual's linguistic practices. The macro-societal perspective regards language behaviour of the individual as conditioned by predefined societal arrangements, while the micro-interactional perspective stresses individuals' capacity to make their own choices.