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cultural suppression. She goes on to argue that: “it is not to say that I believe it will completely disappear. On the contrary she writes, she believes that the Taiwanese language will remain as part of the cultural legacy, but how large the legacy will be depends on whether or not today’s Taiwanese people are able to standardize a script and computing input system that will preserve it in a written form and open up its domain of usage” This then is the central focus of this dissertation:
how can Taiwanese as a language be best preserved?
4.4 The historical origins of Southern Min (or Taiwan Southern Min)
Fujian province together with northeast corner of Guangdong is historically the birthplace of all Min speaking peoples. (Norman: 1998:228) This region of China is not particularly accessible, lacking any real major river systems and has a mountainous terrain. Because of these reasons the area tends to be on the peripheral of the rest of the mainland. The dialects spoken in this region of the country have been historically outside of the mainstream of Chinese linguistic development.
Over the centuries this region has become isolated from the linguistic development that has characterized the rest of the country and with its lack of access and terrain this region of the country has over time developed a sense of internal differentiation. Despite the sense of isolation and remoteness that the region has experienced over time, the Min dialect is the second most recognizable dialect besides Mandarin. In Chinese, Norman defines a Min dialect as “any dialect in which both aspirated and un-aspirated stops occur in all yang (lower register) tones and which lexical incidence of the aspirated forms in any given word is in substantial agreement with that of other dialects in the group” (Norman: 1998: 229)
The dialects found within Fujian province are Min dialects and therefore are geographically
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defined within that region that is except for the southwestern corner of the province which is a Kèjia speaking region of the country.
In this thesis I have used Spolsky, Schieffelin and Woodard’s model of language policy and ideology to explain how successive governments starting with the Japanese in 1895 to the later Kuomintang used language ideology as one means of controlling and directing language policy on the island of Taiwan from 1895 to 1987 which is the historical period under consideration in this thesis. When the Japanese first arrived on the island they were more concerned with quelling any local resistance to their colonizing the island, and only later were more direct language planning policies put into place. The new Japanese government on the island was influenced by a sense of modernization on their own island that had occurred at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration and were guided by the desire to modernize education in Japan and carry on this new policy in Taiwan once they arrived. Clearly, the Japanese accomplished a great deal on the island and for the most part it is argued that the local population did benefit at least to some measure by the Japanese colonial movement on the island. On the other hand, local language was all but ignored and certainly not taught in the common schools. Some Chinese language and culture was permitted early on in the beginning of their rule. When the KMT arrived, they took a slightly different approach and once they came Japanese was no longer allowed as a medium of communication and certainly not in any of the broadcast media. Although not the dominant group the so-called mainlanders control language policy on the island for more than 50 years now. There is a move towards preserving and maintaining Southern Min or Taiwanese as a language and this topic will be further developed in the next study that I hope to undertake.
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Master of Science or Arts in International Master’s of Taiwan Studies
Thesis: THE POLITICS OF LANGUGE: MONONLINGUAL LANGUAGE POLICES UNDER THE JAPANESE AND KOUMNTING REGIMES 1895 TO 1987
Major Field: Language Policy under the Japanese and Kuomintang Regimes in Taiwan 1895 to 1987
· National Chengchi University College of Social Sciences Entrance Award 2007
· International Masters of Taiwan Studies Scholarship 2007
· Ministry of Foreign Affairs Common Scholarship 2008
· International Masters of Taiwan Studies Scholarship 2009
· Ministry of Foreign Affairs Common Scholarships 2009
Experience:
English Teacher, April 2009 to the present AMC, Keelung, Taiwan
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Name: Ronald Grant Verbrugge Date of Degree: April 2010
Institution: National Cheng chi University Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Title of Study:
Pages in Study: 85 Candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts in Taiwan Studies Major Field: Taiwan Studies
Scope and Method of Study: Language policy during the Japanese and Kuomintang Regimes in Taiwan
ADVISER’S APPROVAL: Dr. David Blundell