延边地区朝鲜族语言使用现状研究

Abstract

The research of this study involves Chinese Korean living in eight areas:Yanji, Dunhua, Tumen, Helong, Antu, Huichun, Longjing, Wangqing, etc, aims tostudy the current situation of their language.Yanbian city which owns unique ethnic cultures reflects the language use of Chinese Korean. The research demonstrates that the bilinguals also grasp a foreign language that play a key role in their language acquisition and school education, meanwhile they also have active attitude to Chinese and foreign languages. Korean as their mother tongue is mainly used in famlies;Chinese plays more social role than Korean. Intergen -eration relationship also has important effect, i.e., the use of Chinese and code-mixing is more popular in younger people, and they use Korean more due to the interaction with their parents.Language acquistion and contact may result in code-mixing which exists in every aspects in our living. Thelanguage transferring in Yanbian area is interactive, i.e., Chinese Korean is to learn Chinese in primary school while Han people grasp Korean in daily life. The language used in News media in Yanbian is Korean, which is conducted as the national policy by government and was highly praised. The national relationship in Yanbian is in good harmony. People here regard lanuage as symbol of national identity, even mix the view of language and the view of nationality. Their attitude is solidate on marriage and mother tongue.The co-existence of bilingual and code-mixing in Yanbian area is due to the national contact and national policies. People here have deep feelings to their mother tongue and optimistic to the development of Chinese Korean.