Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration : : The Long March to the City / / Dong Jie.
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 the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Encounters
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Symbols and Conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Long March to the City: An Ethnography of Discourse and Layered Identities among China’s Internal Migrants -- 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 -- Appendix 1. Overview of Data Collection -- Appendix 2. Chinese Texts and Pinyin Transcripts of Examples -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781847694218 9783111024738 9783110663136 9783110606713 |
DOI: | 10.21832/9781847694218 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Dong Jie. |