Closed-class Patterns in Mongolian-Chinese Bilingual Discourse ——Means of Identity Maintenance
This paper aims to discover the ciosed-class (grammatical and phonological) patterns in Mongolian-Chinese bilingual discourse.The data is a piece of naturally occurring conversation between three Mongolian-Chinese bilingual students.Through a preliminary investigation, it is found that when code mixing, the speakers preserved the Mongolian grammatical features such as possessive, emphasis, plural, spaial relation, aspect, conditinal, accompanying and mean expression;the speakers also preserved the phonological feature of Mongolian, which is studied from the perspective of tone variation and assimilation.It is argued that the underlying reason for this phenomenon is relevant to the speakers' consciousness of their social identity.This paper also generalizes from this casestudy that in code mixing, the speakers usually preserve the closed-class features of the dominant language (A-language), which would also have impact on the expression of inserted language (B-language).
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