Overview of the Sociolinguistic Context of the Dongxiang Language (Lódz Studies in Language 77) （2025. XXXVI, 158 S. 40 Abb. 210 mm）

Lefort, Julie/ Herausgegeben:Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara

PETER LANG（2025発売）

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This book aims at questioning the relationship between language and identity through the description of the sociolinguistic environment of the Dongxiang language, an under-studied Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people in Southern Gansu, China. We will try to understand how, through interaction between the Dongxiang people and their neighbouring Hui communities, and their relationship to Standard Chinese, contacts have deeply modified the structure of the Dongxiang language. The Dongxiang linguistic community is in a state of unconscious diglossia: there is a de facto hierarchy of languages, but it is not recognised by speakers and is not expressed in the form of a general feeling of linguistic insecurity within the community. This is reflected in the Dongxiang language, where a specific morphology has been developed to integrate lexical and syntactic borrowings, making code-switching and code-mixing virtually impossible.

Contents

Table of contents

Dedication *

Table of contents *

List of figures, maps and photos *

List of tables *

preface *

Acknowledgment *

Notes on the transcriptions *

List of abbreviations *

1. Introduction *

2. General Context *

2.1 Historical context and origin of the Dongxiang group *

2.2 Modern context *

3. The dongxiang language and its linguistic Context *

3.1. The speakers of the other Mongolic languages of Gansu-Qinghai and their origin *

3.2 The Dongxiang language and the Mongolic languages of Gansu-Qinghai *

3.3 The region's "hybrid" Chinese languages and Linxia *

4. The Dongxiang linguistic community *

4.1. Identity representations: the perception of self and other *

4.2 The languages and their names *

4.3. The Dongxiang Linguistic Community *

5. Language Relationships and Linguistic Representations *

5.1. Dongxiang's galaxy of languages *

5.2. Roles and domains of language use *

5.3 Linguistic Representations *

5.4 Linguistic insecurity and diglossia *

6. Overview of contact induced change and code-mixing phenomena *

6.1 Phonological changes *

6.2 Lexical borrowings *

6.3 Morphological changes *

6.4 Function words *

6.5 Grammatical borrowings *

6.6 At the edge between Borrowing and Code-switching *

7. Conclusion *

References *

Appendix *

Index *