A Tri-Generational Study of Language Choice and Shift in Port Harcourt

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Universal-Publishers, 2007 - 448 頁
This book is intended as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in the field of bilingualism and language choice. It reports on a sociolinguistic study of the language choice patterns of the minority Ikwerre ethnic group of Port Harcourt City, Nigeria. Further, it aims primarily to present a systematic and coherent account of the extent and patterning of Ikwerre-NPE bilingualism within the Ikwerre community, focusing on: the means by which people in this community deploy two different codes in their day-to-day communicative interactions and the social and attitudinal motivations for language choice at both the group and individual level. To satisfy these objectives this study has taken into account the pre-existing linguistic, socio-economic and macro-sociological distinctiveness of the Ikwerre community. Thus, it has investigated prevailing local attitudes towards Ikwerre and NPE by incorporating matched guise tests to deepen our understanding of the processes of language choice and shift operating in the community. This was done to demonstrate that contemporary local linguistic attitudes working together with personal network ties would offer fuller and more adequate explanations of why members of the Port Harcourt Ikwerre community select either Ikwerre and/or NPE in their normal every day interactions. From the observations and findings made in this study I propose an account of the language choice patterns attested in my Port Harcourt Ikwerre community data that is based on establishing a broad typology which can be directly related to the bilingualism continuum. This framework should be equally applicable to similar bilingual settings around the world, which, like Port Harcourt, have experienced rapid metropolitan growth as a result of radical socio-economic change in their recent history. Finally, it is my hope that in the course of reading this book the reader can come to a place where their understanding and appreciation of the effects of languages in contact in non-Western communities is enriched with the illustrative material in this book.
 

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The Ikwerre Origins and Social
21
the Igbo Tradition
28
Organisation
39
Table 1
43
Notes
61
Chapter Three
62
Table 1
71
Correlations between language choice
220
Impact of Social Network Ties
230
Average number of Indigenous ties
233
Networks and Language Choice
243
Mean scores of speakers with seven
244
and Language Proficiency
250
Correlations between language
251
Networks and Language Proficiency
252

Table 2
103
Notes
127
Chapter Four
129
Table 4
155
Patterns of Language Choice
186
Table 5
197
Generalised patterns of language choice
203
Language Choice
208
Proficiency and Observed Language
219
Table 18
253
IkwerreNigerian Pidgin English
266
Harcourt
274
Conclusion and Implications
316
Interview Schedule
330
Appendix II
335
Language Attitudes Scores
337
Transcription Symbols for Verbal
346
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