A Study on Chinese Minority Language Maintenance and Identity in a Multilingual Context

The era of globalization has rendered Chinese minorities a multilingual context in which they have been influenced by the national language policy, as well as language adaptability, and thus maintain the minority languages at different levels. Through adopting a series of communicative strategies, their identity features pluralism, dynamism, and transmission. To some extent, they maintain their existing ethnic identity, but on the other hand, they have also been constructing their new identity. In view of the changes in their language and identity, joint efforts should be made to maintain minority languages.