臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

隨著時代的變遷，越來越多臺灣人在家裡、學校、職場上、或網路上，以英文名字互稱。先前的文獻主要著墨於臺灣人或中國人如何用英文來快速與外國人「破冰」、建立友誼。這篇論文則是想試著了解具有何種社會背景的人會擁有英文名字。從南桃園的八所國民中學中，回收了564份問卷，問卷裡主要調查受訪者英文名字的使用情形、需要英文名字的理由、是否有換過英文名字、以及他們對孩子英文名字的看法。另外，並選出九位受訪者做深入的質性訪談，補足問卷無法問到，更深層的看法。結果顯示，具有較高學歷的受訪者，最有可能有英文名字；其中，商務人士、公教人員、和醫療人員也是比較會有英文名字的族群。 工廠作業員和農夫，則比較不會擁有英文名字。然而，在年輕一代，大約九成的孩子都有英文名字，在進入國中之前有英文名字的孩子，更高達九成六。可以想見，未來，也許會有更多人擁有英文名字，其地位也可能和中文名字相當。

This study intends to explore the phenomenon that Taiwanese increasingly adopt English names at home, in school or workplace, and on the Internet. Previous studies have focused on how Taiwanese or Chinese people adopt English names to initiate quick development of intimacy with foreigners. This study aims to investigate the role of Taiwanese social background and whether or not this would affect the tendency to adopt an English name. A total of 564 parents of students from eight junior high schools in Southern Taoyuan, Taiwan, were asked to report on their adoption of an English name, reasons why they needed an English name, whether they had changed their English name, and their perspectives about their children’s name. Nine of them were selected as interviewees for qualitative research. The results indicate that participants with a higher educational level were the most likely to have an English name. Businessmen, government employees, and employees in the medical industry also had a higher tendency of adopting an English name than factory workers and farmers. Participants have an English name mainly for attending English lessons or for the occupational requirements. However, for the younger generation, approximately 90% of the children had an English name with around 96% of the children acquiring it before they enrolled in junior high school. This leads to the conclusion that more Taiwanese might have an English name in the future, and a discussion regarding the equivalence between Chinese names and adopted English names.

CHINESE ABSTRACT i
ENGLISH ABSTRACT ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
LIST OF TABLES ix
LIST OF FIGURES xi
LIST OF APPENDICES xii

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Research Background and Motivation 1
1.2 Purposes of the Study 3
1.3 Significances of the Study 6
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2.1 Language, Cultural Capital, and Symbolic Power 7
2.2 Names and Identity 10
2.3 Multiple Names 11
2.4 Adoption of English Names 12
2.5 Different Naming Practices among Chinese and English Names 14
2.5.1 Chinese Naming Practice 14
2.5.2 English Naming Practice 18
2.5.3 How Ethnic-Chinese Choose English Names 18
2.6 Unique Names 20
2.7 Name Changing 24
2.8 Meaning of Names in Different Cultures/Languages 25
2.9 English Names for Language Teaching and Learning 27
2.10 Summary 29
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY 31
3.1 Research Design 31
3.2 Participants 31
3.3 Instruments 32
3.3.1 Questionnaire 32
3.3.2 Interview 33
3.4 Data Collection 33
3.5 Data Analysis 35
CHAPTER FOUR
RESULTS 36
4.1 Descriptive Statistics from Surveys 36
4.1.1 The General Social Background of the Participants 36
4.1.2 The Adoption of an English name 39
4.1.3 Gender 39
4.1.4 The schools 40
4.1.5 Occupation 41
4.1.6 Education 43
4.1.7 The Language Used at Work 44
4.2 Comparisons of Variables 45
4.3 The Adption of an English Name 46
4.3.1 Reasons Why Participants Never/Used to Adopt an English Name 46
4.3.2 Reasons Why Participants Needed an English Name 47
4.3.3 When Participants First Had an English Name 49
4.3.4 Name Givers of the First English Name 49
4.4 Relationships between English and Chinese Names 50
4.4.1 Representation of Identity 50
4.4.2 Attitudes toward and Relation Between Two Names 51
4.5 Name Changing 53
4.5.1 Reasons Why Participants Had Not Changed Their English Name 54
4.5.2 Reasons Why Participants Had Changed the Name and Name Givers 54
4.6 Common Names and Unique Names 56
4.6.1 Common Names 56
4.6.2 Unique Names 58
4.6.3 Unique Names and Name Givers 60
4.7 Naming Practices and Name Givers 60
4.7.1 Naming Practices for Participants 61
4.7.2 Naming Practices for Children 61
4.8 The Need for an English Name 62
4.8.1 Participants’ Need for an English Name 62
4.8.2 Children’s Need for an English Name 64
4.9 Children’s English Names 66
4.10 Summary of Results 68
4.10.1 Research Question One: the Adoption of an English Name among Participants 68
4.10.2 Research Question Two: the Relations of Chinese Names and English Names 69
Research Question Three: the Change of English Names 69
4.10.4 Research Question Four: the Adoption of a Unique English Name 69
CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 71
5.1 Adoption of an English Name in Southern Taoyuan 71
5.1.1 Shifting Internationalization, Globalization, and Modernity 71
5.1.2 An English Name and Its Symbolic Power 72
5.1.3 English Names and English Language Learning 76
5.2 Attitudes toward English Names 76
5.3 Name Changing 77
5.4 Unique Name 78
5.5 Implications of the Study 78
5.6 Limitations of the Study 79
5.7 Suggestions for Future Research 80

REFERENCES 82
Chinese Reference 82
English Reference 84
APPENDICES 88

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