The social life of a language
The social life of a language
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语言的社会生活
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10.1075/clu.1.02aik
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2010
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A. Aikhenvald
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A. Aikhenvald
新几内亚岛可能是世界上语言最多样化和最复杂的地区。塞皮克河流域展示了文化和语言的多样性和分裂性，也许比新几内亚的其他地区更甚。许多塞皮克语都有濒危的迹象。Manambu来自Ndu语系，约有2500人使用。许多马南布儿童学习当地的弗兰卡-托克皮辛语作为他们的第一语言，并在日常交流中使用这种语言。该文件表明，该语言的使用者所赋予的价值-以及现代巴布亚新几内亚的一些文化和经济趋势-有利于减缓即将到来的语言转变过程，并改善语言生存的前景。关键词：巴布亚新几内亚多语制;马南布生存;托克皮辛;语言意识形态，纯粹主义和保留
The island of New Guinea is probably the most linguistically diverse and complex area in the world. The Sepik river basin displays cultural as well as linguistic diversity and fragmentation, perhaps more so than other areas of New Guinea. Many of the Sepik languages show signs of endangerment. Manambu, from the Ndu language family, is spoken by about 2500 people. Many Manambu children acquire Tok Pisin, the local lingua franca, as their first language, using it in their day-to-day communication. The paper shows that the value placed on the language by its speakers – and a number of cultural and economic trends in modern-day Papua New Guinea – are favourable to slowing down the process of impending language shift, and improving the perspectives for language survival. Keywords: Papua New Guinea multilingualism; Manambu survival; Tok Pisin; language ideologies, purism and retention