A Survey On Language Life Of Multilingual Community In Wangjing Street’s Korea Town

China has seen internationalization accelerate as it has increasingly close exchanges with the outside world.The number of foreigners in China has increased which has led to a gradual increase in the number of distinctive areas inhabited by foreigners.Based on such new changes,new measures are required.Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality has also successively issued documents including The Promotion Regulations for the Development of Beijing ’s International Language Environment and The Norms for the Translation and Writing of Chinese Signs in Public Places,putting the development of the capital’s international language environment on the agenda."Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job." This study takes the multilingual community of "Korea town" in Wangjing district of Beijing as the research object in order to examine the language ability,language use,language attitude and language identity of Korean groups at the static and dynamic levels,analyze their causes and put forward development suggestions according to the reality of language life by means of questionnaire,personal interview,participatory observation and case analysis.In addition,the author also uses speech community theory,place semiotics theory and other research frameworks for reference.Through this survey,328 valid language signs were obtained and 118 valid questionnaires were collected,based on which the research was carried out.This thesis includes seven chapters in total.The first chapter introduces the research background,research questions,research significance and definition of main terms.The second chapter is about literature review,and also expounds the research design and process of this study on the basis of predecessors’ achievements.The third chapter is the general description of Wangjing "Korean city".The fourth and fifth chapters are the research emphasis.The fourth chapter makes a description and explanation of its linguistic landscape.The fifth chapter depicts and explains the language life of Korean language groups,and investigates the language interaction of the multilingual community in combination with interviews and case studies.Chapter six analyzes the characteristics and influence factors of the language life pattern of the multilingual community,and gives development suggestions.The seventh chapter is the conclusion part,including the survey conclusions and prospects,as well as the innovations and limitations in this study.The linguistic landscape survey finds that the linguistic landscape of "Korea town" is mainly composed of Pinyin,English,Chinese and Korean,which shows a community with multilingual characteristics.Bilingual sign is the main code type;as for the code combination,the code combination of Chinese language and English（48.67%）accounts for the highest proportion of official language signs,and the code combination of China and South Korea（40%）accounts for the highest proportion of non-official language signs;In terms of code orientation,Chinese language occupies an absolute advantage,and English is the second dominant language in official signs,while Korean language is the second dominant one in non-official signs.Linguistic landscape has the lag of its maintenance and the inconsistency of official and non-official linguistic landscape development.Language community and official linguistic landscape governance are two important factors affecting linguistic landscape.The language signs in the multilingual community are not only symbols to convey information,but also part of the regional aesthetic landscape,and also the business card of urban civilization.In terms of language competence,bilingual people account for the most,monolingual people the second,and multilingual people account for the least in Korean language groups;Their overall level of English is better than that of Chinese,and their listening and speaking ability of Chinese is better than that of reading and writing.As for language use,Korean language occupies an absolute advantage in different fields.Based on the needs of work and life,Chinese language is used more frequently than English.If personal language competence is high enough,language use shows obvious field adaptability.In terms of language attitude,Korean language has a high evaluation of both emotional attitude and utilitarian one,while Chinese language has a high evaluation of utilitarian attitude,and that of emotional attitude is slightly lower.The group has a high acceptance and practice of code mixing.In the language planning of their son generation,languages of Korean and English have a significant advantage,while Chinese language has no advantage.In terms of language identity,Korean people have a deep love for their national cultural traditions and attach importance to the planning of mother tongue language.In contrast,they have a week sense of identity of Chinese language and Chinese culture.Their motivation of learning Chinese is mainly pragmatism,and they have a weaker awareness and action of actively integrating into multilingual communities.As a whole,it presents a universal implicit isolation state.What is complementary is the small-scale language and cultural interaction between young multilinguals in China and South Korea through their personal hobbies.The static linguistic landscape and dynamic language life performance have confirmed the status of Wangjing "Korea town" multilingual community,but not a speech community.Under the influence of economic motivation,language competence,cultural identity and leisure interaction,the multilingual community as a whole presents the language life pattern of the combination of universal implicit isolation and limited language interaction,the "lag"of linguistic landscape,the "isolation" of language life and the "limitation" of language interaction.Based on its characteristics and influence factors,development suggestions are also given from four aspects:paying attention to leisure interaction,maintaining linguistic landscape,enhancing language governance awareness and improving language service.Hopefully this research will supplement the empirical investigation on the language life of multilingual communities in China,promote the development of the capital’s international language environment,improve China’s international language service,and adapt to the new normal of social development with the increasing internationalization and openness of cities in China.