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Publication details [#66856]

Li, Jian. 2019. When a koiné meets larger lingua francas: attrition of English loanwords in Shanghainese induced by new language contacts. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40 (8) : 721–736.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | lingua franca | loanword | migration | vernacular

Language as a subject

Putonghua

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study suggests lexical attrition of Shanghainese, caused by the intense contact between Shanghainese and Putonghua (PTH). In the new contact triggered by nationwide migration, the national lingua franca -PTH- has cut off the direct contact between Shanghainese (S) and English and there is an attrition of English loanwords in S. Shanghainese has retreated from a regional koiné to a vernacular.