连南瑶族自治县石蛤塘村的语言生活

Everyday Language of Shihatang Village,Liannan Yao People Autonomous County

石蛤塘是粤北连南瑶族自治县的一个自然村,语言生活十分丰富,村民对内使用一种非常特殊的土话,对外使用全县共同交际用语客家话。此外,许多村民还兼通粤语和其他方言。本文在实地调查的基础上,从语言环境、语言态度和语言交际三个方面描述了石蛤塘的语言生活现状,着重从社会语言学的角度分析了族姓、权势、婚姻和年龄四个因素如何制约石蛤塘村民掌握和使用土话、客家话和粤语这三种方言的语言交际行为。

Shihatang is a village of Liannan Yao People Autonomous County with meaningful everyday languages. There is a special but popular dialect among the villagers,but hakka is another social language tool used to communicate with the rest of people in the county. Besides,many villagers of Shihatang are proficient in Cantonese and other dialects. Based on fieldwork,this paper describes the present everyday language situation of Shihatang through three aspects and they are language environment,language attitude and language communication. With an angle of social linguistics,it emphasizes on how the four elements of clan name,power,marriage and age influence language communication behavior of Shihatang villagers mastering and using the dialect,hakka and Cantonese.