An Empirical Study on Rural Primary and Secondary School Students’ Dialect Identity(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2022年02期
- Page:
- 106-118
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- Title:
- An Empirical Study on Rural Primary and Secondary School Students’ Dialect Identity
- Author(s):
- ZHAO Cuilan; SU Chunjing
- Keywords:
- rural primary and secondary school students; dialect identity; empirical study; linguistic diversity
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- Abstract:
- The dialect identity of rural primary and secondary school students is an important aspect of their identification with native Chinese culture. Taking 1, 369 rural primary and secondary school students(11-18 years old)as a sample, we used questionnaires as the main instrument and interviews as the auxiliary to collect the data and employed analysis of variance, multiple linear regression, and textual analysis to explore the issue of dialect identity in terms of the use of dialect, attitude towards the dialect, and the expectation of other people on the dialect. The study found that with the increase of age, the use of dialect by rural primary and secondary school students in the private sector is on the rise, but the use of Putonghua in both public and private spheres has an absolute advantage as the age increases. The positivity in their attitude towards the dialect increases, while that in their attitude towards Putonghua decreases with their age increasing. The expectation of the state, the school and the teacher on the dialect decreases with their age increasing. There is a significant correlation between the use of dialect in both public and private spheres, the attitude towards the dialect and Putonghua, and the expectation of others on the dialect. The attitude towards dialects and Putonghua has the greatest influence on rural primary and secondary school students’ the use of language in both public and private spheres. The conclusion is that rural primary and secondary school students have identity dilemmas in the following three aspects: dialect choice, dialect emotion, and dialect expectation. We should further deal with the relationship between dialects and Putonghua and the question of whether dialect identification is static or dynamic.
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