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The social motivation of retroflex variation of Taiwan Mandarin in an immigrant setting.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social motivation of retroflex variation of Taiwan Mandarin in an immigrant setting./
Author:	Lai, Yu-Ning.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	196 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-07A(E).
Subject:	Sociolinguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10410547
ISBN:	9781369599442

The social motivation of retroflex variation of Taiwan Mandarin in an immigrant setting.
Lai, Yu-Ning.

The social motivation of retroflex variation of Taiwan Mandarin in an immigrant setting. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 196 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2016.

This dissertation examines the social motivation for Taiwan Mandarin (hereafter TM) speakers' choice of variation of the retroflex initials (zh) (ch) (sh) (r) when they are in an immigrant setting. It further investigates TM speakers' linguistic behaviors when they come into contact with Putonghua (hereafter PTH) speakers in an immigrant community where there is no dominant dialect when TM and PTH speakers value their Mandarin as a part of their Taiwanese and Chinese identity respectively in their homeland.

ISBN: 9781369599442Subjects--Topical Terms:

524467
Sociolinguistics.

The social motivation of retroflex variation of Taiwan Mandarin in an immigrant setting.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the social motivation for Taiwan Mandarin (hereafter TM) speakers' choice of variation of the retroflex initials (zh) (ch) (sh) (r) when they are in an immigrant setting. It further investigates TM speakers' linguistic behaviors when they come into contact with Putonghua (hereafter PTH) speakers in an immigrant community where there is no dominant dialect when TM and PTH speakers value their Mandarin as a part of their Taiwanese and Chinese identity respectively in their homeland.
520 $a The results indicate that among all variants of the retroflex initials, the nonstandard palato-alveolar and the lateral are dominant in TM speakers' speech. Multivariate analysis reveals that gender displays the strongest magnitude of effect affecting TM speakers' linguistic choice of the variants of the retroflex initials. Female and male speakers' preference for standard and nonstandard variants respectively suggests that Taiwanese men and women's language use is constrained by traditional gender role inside Taiwanese society. The preference for the nonstandard variant of the retroflex initials by speakers who have greater strength of network with PTH speakers was unexpected. This tendency suggests that their frequent contact with PTH speakers contributes to their sensitive to the linguistic differences between PTH and TM, and their sensitivity further determines their choice of the variants. In addition, speakers who have longer residence time in the US tend to favor the standard variant of the retroflex initials, which suggests that when an immigrant community values Chinese culture as the social standards, speakers' choice of the variants would be affected regardless of their places of origin. The results also show the language use between generations reflects different stages of sociopolitical changes in Taiwanese society.
520 $a The comparative results from the two types of interviews further reveal that the particular sociocultural ideologies and function roles behind the variants of the retroflex initials are assigned by TM speakers. These meanings and ideologies emerge during the group interview, and TM speakers may consciously or subconsciously apply them when coming in contact with PTH speakers in the immigrant community. The findings evidence that socio-psychological factor also plays an influential role affecting speakers' linguistic choice.
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