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Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Dialect Contact Studies：An Emergent Field of Enquiry
1.2 Globalization and the Changing Tiān jīn Dialect
1.3 The Layout of the Paper
Chapter 2 Language Variation and Change：From Traditional Dialectology to Social Dialectology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Western Tradition in the Study of Language Variation and Change
2.2.1 Historical Linguistic Studies
2.2.2 Sociolinguistic Perspectives
2.2.3 Dialect Contact
2.3 The Study of Language Variation and Change in the Chinese Context
2.3.1 Philological Studies
2.3.2 Sociolinguistic Studies
2.3.3 Dialect Contact Research
Chapter 3 Researches on the Tiān jīn Dialect
3.1 The origin and Formation
3.2 The Salient Features
3.3 The Unique Lexica
3.4 Tone Sandhi
3.4.1 Trisyllabic Tone Sandhi Rules
3.4.2 Multi-syllabic Tone Sandhi Rules
3.5 Sociolinguistic Studies
3.6 Limitations of Previous Sociolinguistic Researches
Chapter 4 Socio-economic Settings of the Tiān jīn Dialect
4.1 Social Background
4.1.1 Brief History of Tiān jīn City
4.1.2 Uniqueness of Globalization Process in China
4.2 Globalization and Its Influence on the Tiān jīn Dialect
4.2.1 Pre-reform Period
4.2.2 Globalizing Tiān jīn
4.3 Revival of Tiān jīn Local Culture
4.4 Promotion of Pǔtōnghuà
4.5 Changing Population Structure of the City
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 The Proposed Framework
5.1 Pilot Study
5.2 The Framework
5.2.1 Limitations with Speech Community Theory
5.2.2 Limitations with the Demarcation between Internal and External Factors
5.2.3 The Framework
5.3 Dialect Leveling
5.3.1 Standard Linguistic Market
5.3.2 Loose-knit Social Network
5.3.3 Process of Long-term Accommodation
5.4 Dialect Maintenance
5.4.1 Globalization and Local Culture
5.4.2 Close-knit Social Network
5.4.3 Vernacular Linguistic Market
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6 Variables and Data Collection
6.1 Social Variables
6.1.1 Demographic Variables
6.1.2 Social-Psychological Variables
6.2 Linguistic Variables
6.2.1 Lexical Items
6.2.2 Consonants
6.2.3 Application of FF Rule
6.3 Data Collection
6.3.1 Observer's Paradox
6.3.2 Selecting Informants
6.3.3 Collecting Data for Consonants and FF Rule
6.3.4 Collecting Data for Lexical Items
Chapter 7 Data Analysis,Findings and Discussion
7.1 Construction of the Lexical Items
7.2 Relations between AGE,SEX,OCC and EDU,and Linguistic Variables
7.2.1 Age with Linguistic Variables
7.2.2 Education with Linguistic Variables
7.2.3 Sex with Linguistic Variables
7.2.4 Occupation with Linguistic Variables
7.2.5 MODEL-1 with Four Demographic Variables
7.3 Relations between WP and LoS,and Linguistic Variables
7.3.1 WP with Residuals of Linguistic Variables
7.3.2 LoS with Residuals of Linguistic Variables
7.3.3 MODEL-2 with Six Demographic Variables
7.4 Relations between ATT,SOCNET1/SOCNET2 and FREQ,and Linguistic Variables
7.4.1 Relations between ATT and Linguistic Variables
7.4.2 Relations between SOCNET1/SOCNET 2 and Linguistic Variables
7.4.3 Construction of SOCNET
7.4.4 Relations between FREQ and Linguistic Variables
7.4.5 MODEL-3 with Social-psychological Variables
7.5 Effect of WP on ATT,SOCNET1 and FREQ
7.6 MODEL4-with All Significant Variables
7.7 Linguistic Variations in Different Styles
7.8 The Group of Informants with the Most Features of Tiān jīn
7.9 Change in Progress?
7.9.1 Lexical Change in Progress
7.9.2 Peculiar Consonant Change in Progress
7.9.3 FF Rule Change in Progress
7.10 Summary
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 The Changing Tiān jīn Dialect in the Context of Globalization
8.2 Limitations with the Present Research and Directions for Future Research
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1：Questionnaire
Appendix：2：Lexical Items(161 words)
Appendix 3：The Salient Lexical Items(100 words)
Appendix 4：Passage for Passage Reading
Appendix 5：Models with and without the Retired Informants
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