著者
奥村 匡子 Okumura Kyoko
出版者
神奈川大学言語研究センター
雑誌
神奈川大学言語研究 (ISSN:09153136)
巻号頁・発行日
no.38, pp.23-41, 2015

It has previously been indicated that shadowing has a beneficial effect on pronunciation in terms of prosody. This study analyzed the speech of Vietnamese learners in terms of changes in their accentand intonation, over a period of four months of shadowing practice. The results demonstrated that: 1) word accents increased in accuracy; 2) the intonation of the ka at the end of interrogative sentencesbegan to be inflected upwards; and 3) the intonation of the yo at theend of sentences expressing transmission of information continuedto be expressed as a rising tone, though it is supposed to be a fallingtone. It was the shift in focus towards phonetics that assisted Vietnamese learners in achieving overall improvement in their fourmonth period of pronunciation study.
著者
彭 国躍 Peng Guoyue
出版者
神奈川大学言語研究センター
雑誌
神奈川大学言語研究 (ISSN:09153136)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.40, pp.23-57, 2018-03-10

Linguistic landscape (LL) is one of the most exciting, attractive growing branches in the realm of sociolinguistics. Since the end of the last century, many cases of LL have been reported from all over the world. In order to deepen the theoretical exploration and support the historical study on this field, we need more cases describing LL in various areas and periods from different perspectives. In this paper, we investigate the actual situation of the LL in early modern Shanghai through the analysis of the old photographs of Shanghai shopping districts taken during the 40 years from 1890 to 1929. First of all, we classify the shop signs into two basic types according to the kind of language, the design of the sign board, and the meaning of the words used in the LL. The one type is the Chinese traditional style which also had been used in many cities before the 19th century in China. The other is the modernized style influenced by western culture. After describing the contents of each case of the LL, we explain the characteristics of the LL from historical sociolinguistic perspectives as follows: (1) multilingual society, (2) language prestige and norm, (3) language change, (4) form of industry, (5) style of architecture, and (6) market economy.