Investigation of the Civilization Level and the Gap


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Research paper
LinguisticsInvestigation of the Civilization Level and the Gap
between Rural and Urban Areas through the Lexical
Analysis of Shaoxing Dialect

CONTENTS

Abstract

1. Introduction
1.1 The recent situation of Shaoxing dialect and
the aim of this paper

2. Theoretical Background
2.1 Lexical choice and the social functions
2.2 Social factors
2.2.1 Education
2.2.2 Gender
2.2.3 Age
2.2.4 Place of residence

3. Methods
3.1 The procedure of the selection of words for investigation
3.2 Choice of survey regions and subjects
3.3 Getting data
3.4 Analytic procedures

4. Results

5. Analysis and Discussion
5.1 The general situation of the civilization level
5.2 Social factors
5.2.1 Gender
5.2.2 Age
5.2.3 Place of residence
5.3 The possible future of Shaoxing dialect

6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Investigation of the Civilization Level and the Gap between Rural and Urban Areas through the Lexical Analysis of Shaoxing Dialect

Abstract: This paper firstly introduces some previous studies on speakers’ social factors, such as gender, age and place of residence, and their influence on speakers’ choice of words or vocabulary. Next, it introduces the methods employed in this project and put forward the results of the data through a questionnaire. Then, it analyzes and discusses the relationships between factors of gender, age as well as place of residence. Finally, it discusses and predicts the civilization level and the gap between rural and urban areas through the lexical analysis of Shaoxing dialect and the future development of Shaoxing dialect according to the current situation in Shaoxing. The last part, which is also the most important one of this paper, is where the conclusion lies.
Key words: sociolinguistics, social factors, Shaoxing dialect1. Introduction
1.1 The recent situation of Shaoxing dialect and the aim of this paper
Nowadays, almost all the dialects are being threatening because of the rapid development of economy and the tendency of globalization and multi-polarity. Are those strong and frequently-used languages violating your own dialect Are Shaoxing dialect contained by other ones Will it disappear in the future All of these issues are what I am concerned here.

Bloomfield (1933:385) has said that the causes of sound-change are unknown, which may be true, but as for the lexis-change, I do