Japanese language maintenance and shift within the Nikkei communities in Brazil
- Authors
- 이길용; 쿠도마유미
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- 한국외국어대학교 일본연구소
- Keywords
- Japanese-Brazilian community; 1.5generation; language contact; language maintenance; language shift; ブラジル日系社会; 1世子ども移民; 言語接触; 言語保持; 言語交替
- Citation
- 일본연구, no.59, pp 409 - 431
- Pages
- 23
- Journal Title
- 일본연구
- Number
- 59
- Start Page
- 409
- End Page
- 431
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/13618
- DOI
- 10.15733/jast.2014..59.409
- ISSN
- 1225-6277
- Abstract
- The aim of this research is to analysis aspects of language maintenance and language shift among three generations of Japanese Brazilians in two different rural communities, Aliança and Fukuhaku Mura (city of Suzano), the first in the interior of Brazil and the second in the surroundings of an urban center.
As for bilingualism among the second generation speakers, the research showed that these speakers are indeed bilingual in the Aliança community. However, in Fukuhaku Mura, bilingualism is already observed among first generation speakers who immigrated in an early age, while a tendency to be monolingual is observed among second generation speakers. As Portuguese is the major language in Brazilian society, folk bilingualism is observed in both communities and, for instance, language shift often occurs.
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