柬埔寨华人家庭语言规划与华语传承调查研究

A Study of Family Language Policy and Huayu Inheritance in the Cambodia Chinese Diaspora

采用量性和质性相结合的研究方法实地调查柬埔寨实居省乌廊市华人家庭语言规划及华语传承情况后发现,华人家庭在华语传承中起着留根育苗的重要作用。家长综合利用家庭内外资源进行华语管理,子女的华语使用频率及华语能力较父辈有明显提升。家长与子女具备华语忠诚与族群认同,其华语传承动机兼具象征性与工具性。影响华人家庭华语传承的因素主要有:华族的自我赋能,华语的声望价值及华语新媒体的传播,华语的语言韧力,中柬两国的友好关系等。建议今后华语传承研究采用跨学科的理论方法,在实地调研的基础上分析各类因素对华语传承的影响,归纳华语传承的普遍机制。

This paper adopts a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the family language policy and Huayu inheritance in the Chinese diaspora of Oudong,Cambodia.Generally,the research results show that the Chinese families play an important role in preserving and maintaining Huayu in Cambodia.The parents made full use of the resources available inside and outside the family to empower Huayu.Compared to the parents,the younger generation’s overall Huayu profi ciency has shown clear improvement in terms of frequency of uses and language competence.Both parents and children have a high loyalty to Huayu and a strong identifi cation with their Chinese ethnic identity,and their Huayu inheritance has symbolic and instrumental motivations.The main factors that may infl uence Huayu inheritance include:the self-empowerment of Chinese people,the prestige of Huayu in a broader sense and the spread of new Chinese media,the language resilience of Huayu,and the bilateral relations between China and Cambodia.In the future,more interdisciplinary research on the overseas Chinese communities is required to measure the actual eff ects of these factors and generalize the universal mechanisms govern-ing the inheritance of Huayu.