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An Adaptation Study of English and Chinese Code-Switching in Movie GoLaLaGo

Author: ChiXiaoLin
Tutor: XiaoLongFu
School: Shandong Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: English and Chinese code conversion Compliance study Movie
CLC: H315.9
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Language and social lives. Language is a social phenomenon, plays an extremely important role in the social life. In turn, society is bound to have an enormous impact on the language. Treviso Thelen (Jef Verschuren) that the language used is the language selection process. The Guodong proposed code switching research compliance mode in summary of code switching in the past, especially Treviso Thelen pragmatic theory on the basis of the Adaptation Theory. He believes that code switching is a concrete manifestation of bilingual communicator conform to a highly flexible to adapt based on the principle language behavior. Code switching and adapt is divided into three areas: language reality, social conventions and psychological motivations. Code-switching is a complex linguistic phenomena, refers to people in the same dialogue or conversation process, by a language or a variant into another language or variant phenomenon. Since the 1970s, code switching has caused great concern to researchers in different fields. Western linguists and researchers from the sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, grammar, ethno-linguistics, syntax, conversation analysis, pragmatics and other areas of this phenomenon have made extensive and intensive investigations and make a constructive point of view, the theoretical framework or pattern. Code-switching is a natural product of language contact, as many subjects in the research topics of common concern for the term, researchers are often based on their own research purposes, research methods and the understanding of the phenomenon has a different point of view. Himself at the beginning of the code conversion study, many issues need to be scientific confirmation and explanation, definition and classification of this phenomenon, these will be the decades thereafter the hot issue of code switching. In recent years, with the development of the national economy, international exchanges become more frequent contacts and exchanges between different cultures in the world today is gradually increasing, which provides a broad space for development code switching. Corpus sources, there have been studies from the campus, family, classroom teaching, advertising, television programs, newspapers and magazines through the analysis, but also unusual film in English and Chinese code conversion. Treviso Thelen Pragmatic Adaptation Model Adaptation Theory and Guodong code switching in the theoretical basis, select a movie \The analysis of the system. Conform to the process, the speaker endorsed by each other in order to obtain or improve communication efficiency, and sometimes need to adjust their own style of conversation to be consistent with each other's style, code switching as a communicative strategy to achieve a variety of pragmatic functions . Movies in English and Chinese code conversion phenomena compliance not only appeared in English in the modern movie code conversion language provides a new instance, and confirmed in the the Guodong language code - switching mode to study film in English and Chinese code conversion effectiveness and feasibility. This study sought to make a new discussion of code switching, and contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon of the increasing number of cross-cultural communication code switching, thereby increasing the level of communication. Finally, the research on bilingual or multilingual environment code switching phenomenon of learning and teaching some inspiration.

An Adaptation Study of English and Chinese Code-Switching in Movie GoLaLaGo

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