A Survey Of The Language Situation Of The Northeast Migrant Population In Xiamen

Xiamen is the frontier of reform and opening up.The rapid economic development has attracted a large influx of immigrants,which has accelerated the collision and integration of various dialects,making the language environment of Xiamen more complex.The purpose of this study is to understand the language situation of Xiamen's immigrants to grasp the language development trend of this group,and to enrich the results of Xiamen's urban language survey.According to various considerations,we further lock the research object into the immigrants from the Northeast Mandarin area.Compared with the foreign population from other dialect areas,this group has obvious linguistic characteristics of the group.To investigate the linguistic situation of this group is helpful to carry out the investigation in depth on the one hand,and to provide case reference for the study of a particular dialect group on the other hand,which is innovative.In this paper,a quantitative and qualitative research method is used to investigate the language situation of the immigrants in Northeast Xiamen from three aspects: language competence,language use and language attitude.Firstly,we collect the relevant information about the language status of the immigrants in Northeast Xiamen through questionnaires and interviews.Then,through the statistical analysis of the data,it describes the language competence,language use and language attitude in detail.Then,by comparing with the existing research results of the foreign population language situation survey,the paper finds out the group characteristics of the foreign population in Northeast China which are different from those in other dialect areas,and explains the causes of the group characteristics with the data of literature,observation and interviews.Finally,with the help of Spss software package,Pearson correlation analysis is made on the seven social factors that may affect language status,including “gender”,“age” “occupation” “cultural level” “length of stay in Xiamen” “interpersonal communication” and “desire to stay”.The contingency caused by sampling is excluded and the relevant variables that affect language status are identified.The specific expressions of language competence,language use and language attitude on these variables are analyzed and explained.The results show that the linguistic status of the non-native population in Northeast Xiamen is different from that of the non-native population from other dialect areas,including the low level of mastery of the inflow local dialect,the general pronunciation level of Putonghua,and the lack of functional differentiation between the native dialect and Putonghua.In addition,the linguistic status of the migrants in Northeast Xiamen is also different in terms of gender,age,cultural level and length of time to Xiamen.