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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

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.