Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Speech Science /
Linguistics, grade: 1,7 (A-), Humboldt-University of Berlin
(Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course:
Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics: a merger, 19
entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: The
present diverse - and seemingly confused - linguistic situation in
Taiwan is the result of various historical layers and issues of
power-distribution. The island, originally inhabited by aborigines
of approx. 10 different languages, then settled by a people from a
province of the Chinese mainland, then occupied by the Japanese,
then reconquered by the Chinese and refuge to the general Chiang
Kai-shek and his followers, has experienced the promotion of
different "official" languages., abstract: The Seminar
'Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics: A Merger'
included an intensive e-mail exchange with Taiwanese students. My
keypal 'Cherlene', told about the linguistic diversity of her
country. Besides, I had the opportunity to read the letters which
were exchanged between my classmates and their assigned Taiwanese
students. People in Taiwan have to deal with a multilingual
society. Although Mandarin Chinese is the official language, there
are in fact several more languages one is confronted with in
everyday life. Cherlene pointed out that choice of code differs not
only between social classes, ethnic communities and generations,
but also between other domains of life such as school, university,
jurisdiction, the media and advertising. Each of our e-mail
partners was multi- or at least bilingual in Mandarin plus one or
two other Chinese languages. Besides, all of them knew English
or/and another European language. The reality of Taiwanese society
requires the ability to switch codes flexibly according to the
occasion. This complex situation is the result of political
changes, power-shifts, two main, contradictory waves of language
promotion, and a strict lang
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