吉首苗族语言使用情况调查-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Des Descriptive Chinese Abstract ⅱ ⅱ 族传统文化，扬弃自己的本族母语，在某种程度上就是放弃了一种优秀的民族文化。因 此, 国家在大力推广共同语的同时，应当加强少数民族语言的维持。 本研究有助于了解少数民族的语言状况，对政府语言政策的制定和执行有一定的积 极意义。 因条件有限，本研究的结论还不够成熟，有待于更为深入的研究来进一步论证。 关键词：吉首苗族； 语言使用； 双语及多语； 影响因素 Engli English Abstract PAGE PAGE iii Abstract In the great context of globalization and urbanization, the exchanges among different countries and different nationalities in the world are becoming more and more frequent, thus the contacts between various languages or varieties are accordingly increasing. All the multinational countries in the world are inevitably facing the issue of bilingualism or multilingualism. In view of economic interests, social motivation and status awareness, minority languages are threatened by strong languages. With the development of economy and culture, minority nationalities in our country have an increasing need for Han language. Jishou city, which is the provincial city of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture of Tujia and Miao Nationalities, is the habitation of Miao nationality. Influenced by the powerful Han language, Miao people in Jishou shift to Han language and Miao language has a decline tendency. Language is the carrier of culture, and to a large extent the diversity of the world’s civilization is embodied in the world’s linguistic diversity. Therefore, the survival of minority languages arouses many scholars’ concern. This research, which is guided by bilingualism study of sociolinguistics, adopts the sociolinguistic research approaches of observation and questionnaire to explore the language use of Jishou Miao nationality. The investigator, as a member of Jishou Miao nationality, adopts participant observation to document Miao language intergenerational transmission and make qualitative analysis. As a supplement to the participant observation, a questionnaire is conducted to 90 informants with various occupation, education background, age and place of residence, etc. The data is processed with SPSS (13.0) and EXCEL (20