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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Liebe SinoNet-Mitglieder,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">hiermit möchten wir Sie zu folgendem Gastvortrag einladen:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Einladung zum Gastvortrag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">im Rahmen der
<b>Vienna Taiwan Lectures</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ralf Vollmann,</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Universität Graz,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Liao Chih-I</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Wien<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Taiwanese Hakka Identity and Language Dynamics</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The presentation is based on fieldwork conducted in 2017, 2020, and 2023 which involved visits to Taiwanese Hakka settlements and academic institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It will discuss the following findings: .1. Despite Taiwan’s language policies supporting minority languages through educational materials and linguistic preservation, younger Hakka speakers rarely use the language, and
middle-aged speakers frequently code-switch with Guoyu (Mandarin). Teaching materials often reflect Chinese stylistic influences. 2. Elderly speakers, too, predominantly seem to use Mandarin or Hokkien (Taiwanese), with elicited Hakka utterances often showing
Chinese or Hokkien structural influences. 3. As a non-standardized language with diverse dialects, efforts to standardize Hakka in Taiwan risks alienating speakers of certain dialects. 4. Hakkas from other countries also settle in Taiwan in small numbers,
e.g. the "Burmese Chinese" migrants maintaining distinct Burmese cultural and linguistic practices. 5. The so-called "Hoklo-Khek" are Hakkas who shifted to Hokkien language. Conclusions presented are: .1. Prolonged settlement and historical developments have
shaped a unique Taiwanese Hakka identity. 2. Taiwan’s unique historical and political context has fostered a multilingual policy. However, the communicative dominance of a well-established ‘literate’ language (Mandarin) overshadows smaller, often oral languages
like Hakka. 4. Language standardization poses challenges for minority languages such as Hakka, where dialectal diversity resists uniformity. 5. The concept of "Hakka" varies across contexts, in Taiwan it often serves as an ingroup marker. This complicates
connections between Taiwanese Hakkas and global Hakka communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Datum und Zeit:</u> Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2025, 17.00-18.30 Uhr<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Ort:</u> Seminarraum SIN 1, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/Sinologie, Campus der Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2, Eingang 2.3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Link zur Einladung: <a href="https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/news/guest-lecture-by-prof-ralf-vollmann-and-dr-liao-chih-i/">
https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/news/guest-lecture-by-prof-ralf-vollmann-and-dr-liao-chih-i/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Mit besten Grüßen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/Sinologie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2871BA">Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Sinologie</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#747474">Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Am Campus)</span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#747474">Eingang 2.3, 1090 Wien, Österreich</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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