语言接触背景下宁乡地方普通话中的语气词变异分析-variation analysis of modal particles in ningxiang local mandarin under the background of language contact.docxVIP

AbstractGreatly affected by language contact, language variation appears frequently. Due to the influence of people’s native dialects, there appear various kinds of local Putonghua with some distance from standard Putonghua and some features of dialects in the process of learning and using Putonghua for speakers from all sorts of areas in our country, which leads to some changes of vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax in standard Putonghua. Along with popularization and promotion of Putonghua, under the contact between Ningxiang dialect and Putonghua, Ningxiang local Putonghua, as a new language variety, is a linguistic phenomenon that some characteristics of Ningxiang dialect appear in the Putonghua speaking.This research will analyze the modal particles variation in Ningxiang local Putonghua to analyze modal particles changes from the perspective of language contact and language variation of sociolinguistics with the research methods in sociolinguistics mainly adopted. At the very beginning, with recording and observation, a large amount of data of Ningxiang local Putonghua will be collected from about 90 people of different gender, educational level, occupation and occasion who are natives in Ningxiang County. And then these linguistic data are conducted by the distributional and multivariate analysis. Finally, the data obtained quantitatively would be analyzed with the mathematical statistics methods by using several softwares such as GOLDVARB X, and EXCEL (2007).This study shows that Ningxiang local Putonghua is such a language variety that is mainly affected by linguistic inferences and extralinguistic inferences. It appears because people will add some characteristics of Ningxiang dialect to Putonghua consciously and unconsciously in the process of speaking Putonghua. In the five typical modal particles variation in Ningxiang local Putonghua, statement modal particles variation is used the most frequently; the second one is query modal particles variation. Ex