Investigation On Language Use Of Civil Servants In Xinxiang City

Xinxiang dialect belongs to Hanxin sub-dialect in Jin Language Area, but Xinxiang is in Henan Province, so its dialect shows a transition state. There has been no survey of language using in Xinxiang City. The national civil servants carry out the personnel of the national public affair as exercising national administrative power and the core force for people service, the level of their languages’ quality influences our national image. In 1999, The Notice of Mandarin Level Test for Developing National Civil Servants Mandarin Training was published, showing the country’s great attention on the languages’ using of the group of the national civil servants. Although there has been a few linguistics surveys for different kinds of people’s language using in cities, with the information of the author’s survey, now there is no survey just for the national civil servants’ language using in Xinxiang.This paper uses the relative theories and searching methods of sociolinguistics, selects the national civil servants of Xinxiang as the object and sends 100 investigation questionnaires. Through investigating their basic situation, language competence, language behavior, language attitude, arranging and analyzing the data, this paper summarizes the characters of Xinxiang national civil servants’ language using in according to other professions’ surveys. At the same time, I take inquired method and observation method as helper ones to have some pertinent explores.The first part is exordium, introducing the survey purpose, the city language survey’ origin, present situations and research results.The second part is the survey of Xinxiang national civil servants’ languages using, introducing the basic situation of Xinxiang city, the object and the detailed instruction of the survey. The basic situation of Xinxiang city includes the general situation of Xinxiang, the situation of Xinxiang dialect and the language policy of the national civil servant. The object includes the reason to chose them and the instruction of range of this survey. The survey randomly extracted investigation objects from Xinxiang Environment Protection Bureau, Xinxiang Health Bureau, Xinxiang Salt Industry Bureau, Xinxiang Industry and Information Bureau, Xinxiang Rongxiao Road Administrative Office, Xinxiang Development and Reform Commission. Civil servants should play the leading role during the promotion of Mandarin, according to the language using situation of civil servants, this paper has a good practical significance and can formulate language policies perfectly.The third part is the survey of Xinxiang national civil servants’languages competence, mainly including two contents, statistics and analyses of education level and Mandarin level. There is no one graduated from primary school,5 persons graduated from junior middle school and high school,6 persons graduated from junior college,50 persons graduated from undergraduate college,11 persons graduated from postgraduate in the 72 pieces of investigation questionnaires. From the aspect of Mandarin level, no one’s level is under class 3 and grade A,2 persons got class 3 and grade A,6 persons got class 2 and grade B,16 persons got class 2 and grade A,10 persons got class 1 and grade B,1 person got class 1 and grade A.The fourth part is the survey of Xinxiang national civil servants’languages behavior. On the basis of overall conditions, this part aims to understand the situation of Xinxiang national civil servants’languages behavior as comprehensive as possible from genders, ages, native places and positions. From the aspect of gender, in the family environment, the male is preferred to speak Mandarin, in the pubic places, the female is preferred to speak Mandarin. From the aspect of age, the generation after 60s and 70s is preferred to speak dialect, the generation after 80s and 90s is preferred to speak Mandarin. From the aspect of native place, the ones whose native place is in urban district are preferred to speak Mandarin, the ones whose native place is in the counties are preferred to speak dialect, but they prefer to speak Mandarin generally, the ones whose native place is out of Xinxiang but in Henan province are preferred to speak Mandarin during their work totally, the ones whose native place is out of Henan province speak Mandarin more than dialect.The fifth part is the survey of Xinxiang national civil servants’languages attitude, mainly including three contents, the attitude to Xinxiang dialect, the Xinxiang Mandarin and Mandarin.This survey supplies rich and valuable information to city language survey, and the basis for making and implementing language policies in Xinxiang, does some basic work for the protection of dialect, the promotion of Mandarin and the trend of language using.Through surveying and analyzing, to this paper’s view, Xinxiang national civil servants have the ability of speaking double languages, Xinxiang dialect and Mandarin have the same position in the national civil servants’lives. In the side of the languages competence, the usage frequency and tendency of Mandarin has a relationship with the level educational background, the national civil servants who participated in this survey have reached the standard basically, this phenomenon meets the requirement of the country. In the side of the languages behavior, I classified the it into different situations, took genders, ages, native places and positions as variables to analyze, summarize the different characters from all the sorts. In the side of the complex and subjective language attitude, this paper analyze investigation object’s attitude towards Xinxiang dialect, Xinxiang Mandarin and Mandarin.