Language behavior and identity change in the Fangshang Hui community of Xi’an

IF 0.5 Q4 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI:10.1075/japc.00051.hon

Hongjie Dong

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Abstract

Abstract This article provides information of language behavior practices and identity change of members of the Fangshang Hui community in Xi’an, China. The study explores how differences in residential space influence language behavior as well as the way in which community identity is perceived. Two areas were studied, the traditional Hui community area “around the mosque” and the new area of modern flats. Data were collected via two-hundred questionnaires and forty sociolinguistic interviews. The survey was administered in 2016. Aspects of language behavior and language choice were related to residential area. The findings show that change of residential area has a significant effect on language choice behavior. Language choice was calculated according to the extent of use in community internal and external interactions. The varieties involved were the Fangshang Hui variety, the Xi’an dialect and Mandarin Chinese. Divergent linguistic behavior is related to altered Hui identity, which divides the community into home-dialect oriented and official-language oriented members. ‘Differential recurrence’ is introduced as the mechanism that creates language and identity change and is presented as contribution to sociolinguistic theory.

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西安市房山回族社区语言行为与身份认同的变化

本文提供了西安市房山回族社区成员语言行为实践和身份认同变化的相关信息。本研究探讨了居住空间的差异如何影响语言行为，以及社区身份的感知方式。研究了两个区域，传统回族社区“清真寺周边”区域和现代公寓新区。数据是通过200份问卷和40次社会语言学访谈收集的。该调查于2016年进行。语言行为和语言选择方面与居住区有关。研究结果表明，居住区的变化对语言选择行为有显著影响。语言选择是根据在社区内部和外部互动中的使用程度来计算的。涉及的品种有房上回族品种、西安方言和普通话。语言行为的分化与回族身份认同的改变有关，回族身份认同将回族社区划分为以家乡方言为导向的成员和以官方语言为导向的群体“差异重复”被认为是造成语言和身份变化的机制，并被认为是对社会语言学理论的贡献。

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Journal of Asian Pacific Communication COMMUNICATION-

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1.40

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication studies in the Asian Pacific. Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific.