Language Adaptation-Inheritance Model: A Case of Donggan
Zhou Qingsheng
Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2018, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (4) : 10-18.
Language Adaptation-Inheritance Model: A Case of Donggan
After entering the new country of residence, cross-border immigrant groups face the huge pressure of survival and language barriers. They need to solve the problem of “going to the countryside” or “doing as the Romans do”, which involves three language selection strategies. The first strategy is to “close the internal language and isolate external languages.” The group, maintaining a certain gap with the mainstream dominant language, only lives in a closed native language circle. The strategy is not covered in this article. The second is the strategy of “going out and abandoning the inside” or “adapting the external language and abandoning the native language.” The group adapts and shifts the dominant language, and abandons its own language in order to achieve the purpose of language integration or assimilation. The author constructs it as a language adaptation-assimilation model. The third is the strategy of “inheriting the native language in accordance with the outside world”, which not only adapts to the dominant language, but also inherits the native language. They are basically bilingual. The third strategy is the focus of this paper, and the author constructs it as the mode of language adaptation-inheritance.
language adaptation-inheritance model / language adaptation-assimilation model / cross-border migration language / Donggan language
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