A Survey On Multilingualism Phenomenon Of Changling Oil Refinery

Interaction effect exists among languages.Every language does not exist in isolation and it always contacts with other languages in different degrees and different forms.Bilingual and multilingual phenomena become more and more prominent.During half a century,there appeared several kinds of language states in the industrial communities that were built in China,including Mandarin Chinese state,local dialect state,other dialect state and mixed language state.Changling oil refinery is also an industrial area where multilingual phenomenon exists.This research takes bilingualism and multilingualism of sociolinguistics as the guidance theory.It chooses 90 informants of Changling oil refinery to be its subjects,and adopts interview,observation and questionnaire as research approaches.The investigator collects the data from natural dialogue of subjects.The data is processed with SPSS(13.0)and EXCEL(2000)to quantitatively analyze the bilingual and multilingual phenomena of the residents in Changling oil refinery.This study aims to explore the following three questions:(1)What is the language situation of Changling oil refinery in Yueyang?(2)What social factors influence the usage of Putonghua and dialect?(3)What are the attitudes of residents in Changling oil refinery towards Mandarin Chinese and dialects?It is found in this research that Changling oil refinery is a bilingual and multilingual language community.It is a situation that the Mandarin Chinese has the dominating status,and many dialects have the subordinated status in Changling oil refinery.People can speak both Mandarin Chinese and their hometown dialects in Changling oil refinery.Due to a long-term settlement in Changling oil refinery of Yueyang,some workers have been influenced by the Yueyang dialect.To a certain extent,people think that Mandarin Chinese has a great social influence,so it is a common phenomenon that the residents of Changling oil refinery speak Mandarin Chinese.However,people also hold an open attitude to these dialects.The language usage of Mandarin Chinese and dialects is influenced by some social factors such as gender,age,occupation,educational background and so on.The most effective social factors are occupation and educational background.Different occupations lead to different percentage of speaking Mandarin Chinese.The higher the education level is,the higher of the percentage of speaking Mandarin Chinese will be.The involution and development of language state of modern industrial is one of the most typical phenomena in the process of industrialization.Studying the language usage of the residents in industrial communities is very significant for revealing the relevant language development in the process of the modern industrialization.