从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew

Most students of code-switching would name language shift or language death as one of the many consequences of code-switching. Meanwhile, students of language shift would demonstrate how code-switching happens during the process of shifting. Nevertheless, no one has yet proven or disproven that code-switching must happen in order to complete a shifting process. This thesis aims to answer to this sociolinguistic gap, looking into the sociological, psychological as well as the grammatical aspects of code-switching and language shift. Teochew dialect of Penang Island is specially examined for the fact that the dialect is spoken by the second largest group of overseas Chinese in the island enclosure. This paper has arrived at a conclusion whereby code-switching is NOT an indispensable stage in language shift, after analyzing 50 monologue corpus gathered via the Pear Stories video. There is a neat shift in language choice around the 20s, whilst code-switching is not observed.

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• 王嘉雯
• HING JIA WEN

• Code-switching, Language Shift, Sociolinguistics, Penang Malaysia, Teochew, Dialect