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Encounters Ser.: Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration : The Long March to the City by Dong Jie (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMultilingual Matters
ISBN-101847694195
ISBN-139781847694195
eBay Product ID (ePID)127365225
Product Key Features
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDiscourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration : the Long March to the City
SubjectChildren's Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Chinese, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year2011
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorDong Jie
SeriesEncounters Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight7.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-015602
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThrough her insightful ethnographic exploration of rural-urban migrant identity in neighborhoods and schools of Beijing, Dong Jie has achieved the ambitious purpose of documenting both the rapidly changing face of China's super-diverse cities and the theoretical value of a scaled approach to the study of linguistic processes of identity construction., Drawing on a wealth of data from Beijing's migrant neighborhoods, Dong Jie offers a timely analysis of conversational, social-ideological, and institutional scales interacting in the identity-work of migrant children and adults in contemporary China. This book presents thought-provoking materials on China's internal migration, language diversity, and urban schooling.
Series Volume Number1
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.440951
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements CHAPTER 1: Introduction CHAPTER 2: A Roadmap into the Issue CHAPTER 3: Scale 1-Interaction CHAPTER 4: Scale 2-Metapragmatic Discourses CHAPTER 5: Scale 3-Institutions CHAPTER 6: Conclusions and Reflections
SynopsisMigrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data., 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.
LC Classification NumberHB2534
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