台湾大学生语言生活中三大反差现象的思考

Reflection on Three Contrasts in the Language Life of Taiwan Residents College Students

台湾大学生语言生活中有三种反差较大的现象,即语言能力与语言情感的反差、族群背景与母语认定的反差和乡土语言学习与乡土语言价值的反差。他们有较强的国语使用能力,而对乡土语言有较高情感认同;族群身份上闽、客为多,但选国语为母语的占多数;对在学校强力推行乡土语言教学异议多,但对乡土语言价值肯定居多。在台湾,国语已高度普及,语言统一的倾向相当突出,可语言政策却在刻意冲淡主流语言的影响和地位、混淆不同语言之间的差别和作用。

This paper analyzes three phenomena in the language life of Taiwan Residents college students, which are the distinct contrasts between language competence and language emotion, between ethnic background and mother tongue identification, and between dialect learning and dialect value. Taiwan Residents college students have high competence in Mandarin andstrongemotional identificationwith the dialect; the Hokkiens and the Hakkas are the majority among which most choose Mandarin as their mothertongue; most respondents disapprove the enforcement of dialect teaching at the school,while the majority of them affirm the dialect value. In Taiwan, Mandarin is highly prevalent and the tendency for language unity is quite prominent. Nevertheless,the language policy deliberately dilutesthe influence and position of the dominant language and blursthe discrepancies among and functions of different languages.