Dissertation > Excellent graduate degree dissertation topics show

A Study on Chinese/English Codeswitching in Chinese Popular Songs

Author: JiaoXingHua
Tutor: YangZhong
School: Northeast Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Codeswitching Metafunction Register Popular songs
CLC: H08
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
Downloads: 65
Quote: 1
Read: Download Dissertation

Abstract


Codeswitching is a common phenomenon in daily communication in bilingual or multilingual communities. It is the result of language contact. With the increase of international communication, it also frequently happens in monolingual communities such as China. Therefore, more and more researchers have been doing research on it. Popular songs play an important role in people’s leisure time and we can see that codeswitching frequently appearing in the songs. In addition, the song lyrics discourse is a genre that is between spoken and written discourse so the codeswitching in songs has its own features. And this thesis chooses Chinese/English codeswitching in Chinese popular songs as the data, using metafunction and register theory as the theoretical framework, aiming to find out all these features. And this dissertation also intends to find how codeswitchings in songs realize three metafunctions in this genre and the motivation of its appearance. And the author chooses Huang Guowen’s codeswitchings classification as the model, classifying codeswitching into alternational, insertional and bilingual ones. And the insertional switching can be further divided into text insertion, clause insertion and words and phrases insertion. After the analysis the author finds that in song lyrics the insertional switching happens most frequently and the bilingual switching never happens. And most of the insertional switching is words and phrases insertion, the majority of which are nouns. The inserted clauses are short and easy and the text insertion often happens in rap. These switchings realize ideational function through citing and filling linguistic gaps, realizing interpersonal function through shortening the distance between singers and hearers, expressing the meaning implicitly and emphasizing the core of the songs, realizing textual function through increasing the wholeness and cohesiveness of the text. Through the analysis from register theory the author finds that it is the three dimensions of register, namely, field, tenor and mode, that determine the motivation of using codeswitching and their features.

Related Dissertations

  1. Brief Analysis on the Improvement of Chinese Chattel Mortgage System,D923
  2. The Study on Registration and Protection of Name Trademark,D923.43
  3. The Registration and Legal Protection on the Scent Trademark,D923.43
  4. On the crimes committed in our preliminary investigation,D925.2
  5. Functional Stylistic Analysis of Wordsworth and Shelley 's poem - \,I561
  6. Study on the Government Supervision of Informal Finance,D922.1
  7. System of our real estate acquired in good faith legal issues,D923.2
  8. Legal rules of real estate acquired in good faith,D923.2
  9. Register file testability design and implementation,TN407
  10. Cryptanalysis Against Filtered FCSR Generators,O157.4
  11. A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English News Discourses from a CDA Perspective,H15
  12. On the advertisement English translation,H315.9
  13. A Functional Approach to the NG Shift in Modern Chinese,H146
  14. A Contrastive Analysis of Political News Discourses in English and Chinese Newspapers,H05
  15. Design and Implementation of Provincial Level Data Network Management System of China Mobile Beijing Company,TN929.5
  16. The Analysis and Application of Sampling and Interpolation,TN918
  17. Design and Test of IRFPA-ROIC and Rresearch of DFT,TN215
  18. Translation of Business English from the Perspective of Textual Functional Equivalence,H315.9
  19. Written discourse discourse markers yuan functions and on College English Reading Comprehension,H319
  20. The Analysis of English Disaster News by Transitivity System in the Ideational Metafunction,H313
  21. The Register Analysis of the International Business Letters,H052

CLC: > Language, writing > Linguistics > Applied Linguistics
© 2012 www.DissertationTopic.Net  Mobile