Wang, Xiaomei and Yeoh, Yin Yin (2023) The restructuring of a speech community on a foreign land: the Tianjiners in Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (6). pp. 467-480. ISSN 0143-4632, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1832100.
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This paper focuses on the linguistic evolution of the Tianjin speech community in Sabah, Malaysia. From the perspective of restructuring of speech community, the paper integrates both micro and macro levels of language change into the analysis. Several methods were adopted in this study. Interviews were conducted with community leaders and various families. Besides, an ethnographic approach is taken to observe language use in different activities within the community. In total, 17 Tianjiners were interviewed who were from four generations (G3, G4, G5, and G6) and several community activities were participated. Despite all the social changes within the community, the Tianjin people (also known as northern Chinese) still manifest a strong group identity which differentiate themselves from southern Chinese, such as Hakka in Sabah. The strong group identification goes well with its diversity, which is one of the characteristics of the Tianjin speech community.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences (19ZDA311), Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUMRF/2018-C1/IART/0001) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Speech community; Tianjin dialect; linguistic evolution; Sabah |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Institute of China Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2025 03:29 |
| Last Modified: | 26 May 2025 03:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/51063 |
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