Research On Language Ecology Of The Urban Villages In Nanning

Urban village is the product of a country’s urbanization.During the past more than 40 years of reform and opening up,China’s urbanization process has developed rapidly with both rapid growth of the number of cities and urban area expanding.Some villages around the city have lost farmlands and become urban villages due to the expansion of the urban area.With its low rent and living costs,the urban villages have attracted a large number of migrant workers and new college graduates entering the workplace to live here.A large number of outsiders and local villager live in urban villages.and the language situation is very complex,making urban villages become good case to research language contact,use,attitude and changes.By investigating and studying the languages of the urban villages,we can not only understand the current situation of their languages,but also explore the co-variation relationship between the language and society.China’s ongoing new urbanization construction is providing a good time and space condition for the investigation and study of relevant issues.This doctoral dissertation studies the language ecology of the urban villages in Nanning under the background of accelerated urbanization.The dissertation is divided into 7 chapters.The introduction section introduces the origin and significance of the research,the current research status and focus,the scope,content,theory,methods,as well as the sources and selection criteria of the corpus.The first chapter is an overview of Nanning City and its urban villages,focusing on the three survey points of this article-Tingzi Village,Chencun Village,and Wanxiu Village.The second,third,and fourth chapters conducted questionnaire surveys:language use,abilities and attitudes.The results are analyzed using statistic software SPSS to explore the influencing factors and the relationships.The chapter 5 explores the language changes and development trends of residents in urban villages in Nanning through interviews and surveys of the elderly,middle-aged,and young generations.Research has shown that Pinghua and Baihua in urban villages of Nanning City influence each other,and both have a trend towards Mandarin.The language of residents in urban villages is commonly characterized by the use of both language and language transfer.Chapter 6 constructs a language ecology evaluation index system,and then evaluates the language ecology of urban villages in Nanning City.The evaluation results indicate that Mandarin in urban villages of Nanning City holds an absolute dominant position,and the language ecology of vernacular is slightly better than that of Pinghua,but both are at the "average" level.Chapter 7 summarizes the influencing factors of language ecology in urban villages in Nanning City from three aspects: economy,system,and psychology,and explores the paths and strategies for the construction of language ecology in urban villages in Nanning City from three perspectives: government,society,and family.The conclusion summarizes the main achievements and innovations of this study,and prospects the future research directions in this field.