國立虎尾科技大學 |

You Have to Learn to Adapt : = A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	You Have to Learn to Adapt :/
Reminder of title:	A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan.
Author:	Zheng, Mingzhe.
Description:	1 online resource (138 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355913200

You Have to Learn to Adapt : = A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan.
Zheng, Mingzhe.

You Have to Learn to Adapt :A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan. - 1 online resource (138 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the nature of dialect contact, ethnic identity construction by examining the extent to which the speech of second generation Chinese Americans (henceforth CAs), born and raised in Troy, Michigan, is affected by two local sound changes: the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), the dominant dialect among mainstream Michiganders of European American descent (Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006); and an emerging sound change in Michigan, the Elsewhere Shift (Kendall & Fridland, 2014).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355913200Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

You Have to Learn to Adapt : = A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan.
LDR:04700ntm a2200397Ki 4500 001 918117
005 20181022132815.5
006 m o u
007 cr mn||||a|a||
008 190606s2018 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9780355913200
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10812464
035 $a (MiAaPQ)grad.msu:16017
035 $a AAI10812464
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Zheng, Mingzhe. $3 1192356
245 1 0 $a You Have to Learn to Adapt : $b A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Americans in the "Asian City" of Southeast Michigan.
264 0 $c 2018
300 $a 1 online resource (138 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Suzanne E. Wagner.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This dissertation explores the nature of dialect contact, ethnic identity construction by examining the extent to which the speech of second generation Chinese Americans (henceforth CAs), born and raised in Troy, Michigan, is affected by two local sound changes: the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), the dominant dialect among mainstream Michiganders of European American descent (Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006); and an emerging sound change in Michigan, the Elsewhere Shift (Kendall & Fridland, 2014).
520 $a The community investigated in this dissertation, Troy, is in southeast Michigan. It is distinguished by its large population of Chinese Americans and a long residence history of Chinese immigrants compared to other Asian groups (Metzger and Booza 2001). Referred to locally as "the Asian city of southeast Michigan", 19% of Troy residents are Asian and 5% self-identify as being of Chinese descent. Job opportunities in the auto industry, a high-quality education system, and a safe environment have been attracting an increasing number of Chinese immigrants to this area from the 1960s and continuing to the present day.
520 $a The acoustic and statistical analysis was carried out on the vowel system of 30 college-age Chinese American speakers, and 15 comparable European Americans serve as a reference group. Data collection was conducted by two interviewers: a male graduate student from China, and a European American undergraduate female student who was also from southeast Michigan. The data in this study were collected by a structured interview similar to a sociolinguistic interview.
520 $a The analyses show that Troy Chinese Americans are participating in the local vowel system to the same degree as their European American cohort. Nonetheless, even though the two ethnic groups share similar social evaluation of those vowels, as indicated by the examination of contextual style-shifting, inter-ethnic differences were nonetheless found for the vowels THOUGHT, DRESS, STRUT, TRAP and TOO. Of these vowels, only TOO was sensitive to a change of interlocutor: Participants' nucleus of TOO was on average significantly backer with the male Chinese interviewer than with the female European American interviewer. I argue that inter-ethnic variation in the realization of TOO was found to be due to an effect of interlocutor identity, the F2 dimension of TOO is used by Chinese Americans as a way to index ethnic identity, solidarity, and localness in Troy, Michigan.
520 $a This study draws on research in variationist sociolinguistics. It joins a growing body of work within variationist sociolinguistics that investigates Asian American speakers in the U.S. (e.g., Hall-Lew 2009, Wong 2015, Bauman 2016). The purpose of this work is to contribute to our knowledge of the complex interactions between language, ethnicity identity and regional identity construction. In the variationist literature, there are a limited number of studies focusing on stylistic variation that signals response to interlocutor ethnicity (e.g., Rickford and McNair-Knox 1994 for African American English). This study serves as the first step towards investigating the stylistic variation of CAs' English -- grounded in the variationist approach to ethnic minority English in the U.S. -- and to enrich our understanding of intra-speaker and inter-speaker stylistic variation.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2018
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Linguistics. $3 557829
650 4 $a Sociolinguistics. $3 555401
650 4 $a Asian American studies. $3 1181012
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0290
690 $a 0636
690 $a 0343
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a Michigan State University. $b Linguistics. $3 1184037
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 79-09A(E).
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10812464 $z click for full text (PQDT)