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Language contact and language change society - Psycholinguistics

Author: BaiYang
Tutor: LiuChengYu
School: Southwestern University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Language contact Language change English language network language generated by the contact Social factors Psychosocial factors
CLC: H0
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Language is mankind's most important means of communication. Exchanges of different nationalities, different cultures, different languages ??will inevitably bring about the contact. Language is not a closed system, but rather an evolving process. The interaction between language - different language users will naturally lead to mutual exchange of mutual influence between languages. Therefore, as induced by external causes of language change, language contact can cause language in pronunciation, vocabulary, syntax and meaning to produce some of the changes that can be called language contact-induced changes. English language contact began in the Ming and Qing. 1840, after the failure of the first Opium War, China was forced to open trade and cultural exchanges led to a massive exposure of English words. 1919 \1978 Chinese language reform and opening up more frequently in contact with a wide range, Chinese in many ways had changed. Since the 1990s, with the rapid development of modern technology, the Internet become self telephone, television has been the most important means of communication, it is a profound impact on people's language lives. As a network using a new form of language network language in vocabulary and syntax gradually formed a unique linguistic features. In these characteristics, exposure caused by the Chinese characteristics is the object of this study, which we call network triggered English language contact language. This paper studies the English language contact and language change, aims to analyze the extent to which Chinese English produce changes and attempt to explore the factors that influence these changes. The paper cited by the English language network contacts caused by two aspects from the lexical and syntactic analysis of the language of these networks and then examine the English language caused by contacts resulting changes. In addition, this article from sociolinguistics and social psychology perspective of the direct or indirect impact of these changing external factors. These external factors include language contact strength and popularity of the Internet generation, age, style, speech adaptation and attitudes. This article is divided into six chapters. The first chapter briefly describes the goal of this study, background, significance and research methods and corpus collected. The second chapter of language contact, language change, and language-related research network review and comment. The third chapter introduces the theoretical foundation. Trying to combine social linguistics and social psychology perspective of language change factor analysis. The fourth chapter summarizes the level of vocabulary and syntax of English words in contact-induced changes in the network linguistic expression. Including by the English from the lexical level arising from the impact on borrowing and abbreviations classification analysis, and from the syntactic level language code for mixed speech changes, predicate ingredient ing sentence, additional and superfluous word order change in the classification discussed, supplemented examples gleaned from the Internet. Chapter sociolinguistics and social psychology from the perspective of language contact-induced changes affect the factors discussed. Chapter VI concludes the paper, on the basis of this study are discussed language planning and language teaching meaning, as well as the inadequacy of this article and further research some suggestions. Significance of this study is: First, the theoretical significance of this study lies in sociolinguistics and social psychology on the contact number of factors combine to trigger changes in interpretation. Second, the network language studies, this study caused by contact with English language network carried out a systematic study of the genesis of the network from which the development of language proper and effective guidance and control of guiding significance. Third, the study of the relevant language contact, language change, and network aspects of language policies and language teaching has practical significance.

Language contact and language change society - Psycholinguistics

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