A Sociolinguistic Research On The Language Attitude Of Mongolian Residents In The Urban Area

A city is the highest form of a social organization that presents the development and the change of the civilization and keeps various dialects and forms of language. The development of the city brings in changes in the language by integrating the city population and it is considered to be the social environment of the language changes and the language mixing. The city language interrelates with all the actions that are held within the language life in the city such as the language of the individual and the language group, their attitude to the languages, the language policy and the language standard. The state of the urban language characterizes the development level and the general reputation of the city.This research work aims to distinguish the language attitude of the urban Mongolian residents who live in the Mongolian and Chinese bilingual community in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. We tried to analyze their attitude to their mother language, Mongolian and the second language, Chinese, their language choice when their children start learning languages, the development and the future of the standard Mongolian language and the language policy based on the social factors such as the age, sex, employment, profession, education level and the cultural differences of the residents, their marriage, and the influence of the language environment of the city Mongolians on their language use, the language change and the development of Mongolian language.The thesis consists of an introduction part, three chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction the author presents the objectives, theoretical and the practical significance of the research work, previous studies related to the topic and the research methods.In the first chapter of the thesis the language attitude of the individuals in several different language environments, their language acquisition, and language learning of the students have been analyzed by using sociolinguistic methods and the survey results.In the second chapter using the survey results the author tried to analyze the language attitude of the Mongolian residents in the urban cities, their choice of the first language when their children start talking, language development, the future development of the standard Mongolian dialect, influence of marriage on the language choice and the language policy.In the third chapter the language attitude of Mongolians in the city was analyzed from the aspect of social factors such as the age and the generation gap.In the forth chapter the problems that the Mongolians in the urban area are facing in their language use, causes to the problems and the solutions were evaluated from the view of the theory of sociolinguistics.The concluding part sums up all the previous chapters and discusses the potential research tasks for the further research.