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Discourse, identity, and China's internal migration
Jie Dong
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- Book Synopsis
- Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone of China's fast growing economy, and yet little is known about their and their children's identities - who they are, who they think they are, and who they are becoming. The study of their linguistic practice can reveal a lot about their identity construction as well as about transitions in Chinese society and the (re)formation of social structure at the macro level. In this book, Dong Jie presents a wide range of ethnographic data which are organised around a scalar framework. She argues that three scales - linguistic communication, metapragmatic discourse, and public discourse - interact in complex and multiple ways.
- About The Author
- Dong Jie is tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tsinghua University, China. She is the author of Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration (2011, Multilingual Matters) and The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China (2017, Routledge).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781847694201
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters, (19 August 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 156
- Weight
- 328 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 15 mm
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