Abstract:
One important feature of today’s urban language study is putting a homogeneous, infinitely open language into a heterogeneous social environment to study and describe its various features.In such thinking mode, language, as a relatively active factor, presents obvious, dynamic characteristics,although social description is relatively weakened.Based on the perspective of the migrant population, this paper explores the formation of the urban economy and social development from its language variation and the internal adjustments in dialects.This paper also observes that the convergence of Mandarin reflects its role in adapting to urban society and that the active linguistic adaptive behaviors are driven by “citizenization”.However, urban society showed inadequate compliance, for example, the conflict between sense of urban identity and language identity, and the migrant population’s maintaining of low level Mandarin so that qualitative change can be hard to form.
