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Diversity and Frequency of Usage as a Reflection of Social Factors : = The Application of Variable Rules to the Analysis of Disposal in the Beijing Speech Community.

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Title/Author:	Diversity and Frequency of Usage as a Reflection of Social Factors :/
Reminder of title:	The Application of Variable Rules to the Analysis of Disposal in the Beijing Speech Community.
Author:	Sanders, Robert Martin.
Description:	1 online resource (271 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International47-07A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9798206238983

Diversity and Frequency of Usage as a Reflection of Social Factors : = The Application of Variable Rules to the Analysis of Disposal in the Beijing Speech Community.
Sanders, Robert Martin.

Diversity and Frequency of Usage as a Reflection of Social Factors :The Application of Variable Rules to the Analysis of Disposal in the Beijing Speech Community. - 1 online resource (271 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references

This study of syntactic variation examines the relationship in Pekingese between social traits and linguistic style. It is proposed that rather than rely on isolated diagnostic traits as a manner of distinguishing the speech of one community from another, it is better to compare their respective speech repertoires and frequencies of usage as a means of discovering their similarities and differences. Disposal (chuzhi), a neutral term in Chinese referring to how a physical entity is dealt with or affected by a verbal activity is realized in Pekingese in eight possible forms: GEI-O-V, GEI-O-GEI-V, BA-O-V, BA-O-GEI-V, Topic-V, Topic-GEI-V, V-O and GEI-V-O. The speech of 45 subjects who grew up in Beijing is used to examine the possible relationship between any of these eight sentence patterns and a speaker's age, gender, level of education, or family origin. Though our data base of only 611 sentences is insufficient to allow for construction of a sound mathematical model of Pekingese linguistic behavior, it is still highly suggestive of relationships between certain syntactic patterns and certain social traits. In particular, we observe that females favor the normative BA-O-V at a higher rate than males, while offspring of northern migrant families favor GEI-O-V more heavily than offspring of either southern migrant families or Beijing natives. Though less certain than these two observations, we also find that the more education one possesses the less likely it is for him to utilize V-O, and that the older one is, the more likely it is for him to use V-O and Topic-V.

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