A Survey Of Language Use Situation In The Nanking Muslim Community

From the following five points such as Anthropology,Ethnology and Sociolinguistics,this thesis conducts a research on Nanking Muslim's Language Use Condition. The main content of the paper touchs upon studying the Language Use Condition and Language Attitudes of Muslim which includes the ones about Chinese,their own ethnic language as well as Arabic. With more and more Muslim from abroad chosing to reside in Metropolitan,as for the groups who is living in China ,there seems to be a mainstream tendency about the senses of Ethnic groups language identity that being familiar with Chinese for common communication and mastering their Arabic for religious purpose.This dissertation is composed of five chapters:The first chapter introduces the reasons and significances of this research,as well as academic achievements.Chapter Two firstly this dissertation discusses the objective language situation of Nanking Muslim. This part here shows Nanking Muslim's language behaviour and language level in different fields. This part analyzes the concurrent diversity of Moslem's language behaviour and Language Level in some normal social variables,time variables,surrounding variables,psychological variables and also analyzes some variables which affect Nanking Muslim's language behaviour and Language Level.In the third part,this dissertation displays Nanking Muslim's language attitudes. This dissertation studies Nanking Muslim's attitude towards three kinds of languages from four points,including their evaluation of Chinese,psychological receptive degree of using the language,degree of difficulty in learning it ,expectative degree for their competence towards Chinese,and expectative degree for their children's leaning of it. This part also studies Nanking Muslim's respective nation language attitude from the above four points:their evaluation of their own dialect and expectative degree of preserving their children's nation language. Besides the investigation into these two sorts of language, Arabic is being involved too.In Chapter Four,this part not only shows the diversity among Nanking Muslim's language attitudes toward Chinese and another two ones which are their nation dialects and Arabic, but also analyzes the factors which affect Nanking Muslim's language attitudes.The last part is the conclusion and some thinking based on previous investigations. This part sums up the previous researches and gives a holistic analysis of the Nanking Muslim's language situation. And based on the researches of Nanking Muslim's language behaviour and language attitude,this part puts forwards a new concept called"Macrolinguistic variable"and points out the importance of studying "Macrolinguistic variable"in the new social background.Furthermore,this part proves that Nanking Muslim form a new"speech community"caused by macrolinguistic project. Muslim speech community is a spirit speech community linked by their common spiritual belief,that is Islam, and is different from the regional speech community.Moreover,this part discusses the significance of Nanking Muslim speech community's existence and the characters of Nanking Muslim Speech Community. At last,Combining with the Theory of Ethnic groups language,this part not only challenges Academia into how Ethnic groups are being classified, but also gives a reference to some relative proplems about Chinese Muslim's language use during their living in China.