Eleanor Yue Gong
Biographic Data
| ID | 745819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Yue Gong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor Yue |
| FAMILY NAME | Gong |
| SIGNATURE | GONG E Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | 4901 IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, 20 Bedford Way , London, WC1H 0AL , UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8665-1597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘To invest or divest’
This article examines how skilled professionals in Chinese multinational corporations navigate language investment amid post-globalisation dynamics characterised by heightened geopolitical uncertainty. It advances ‘speculative bilingualism’ as a theoretical intervention, reframing English, and increasingly Mandarin, not as stable linguistic capital but as volatile, contingent resources whose value fluctuates with global realignments, national age…
Shanghai hukou , English and politics of mobility in China’s globalising economy
Amidst Shanghai’s transformation into a global metropolis and the resulting influx of internal migration, obtaining Shanghai hukou remains a challenging yet highly coveted socioeconomic aspiration. Simply earning high incomes, even for middle-class migrants, falls short of ensuring the desired level of geographical and social mobility. This article draws from a sociolinguistic ethnography conducted within a Shanghai-based multinational corporatio…
"Revisiting the "language part of work
This commentary revisits and extends Boutet's seminal perspectives on the "language part of work" by reflecting on its relevance in the AI-driven globalised economy, particularly under Taylorist and multilingual conditions. Drawing on Boutet's research on French workplaces two decades ago, it incorporates insights from diverse labour markets and cultural contexts through two ethnographic case studies. The first case investigates contemporary Tayl…
A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”
This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and under what conditions English-mediated reflexivity, with its stress on self-entrepreneurship, came to re…
A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”
This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and under what conditions English-mediated reflexivity, with its stress on self-entrepreneurship, came to re…
A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”
This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and under what conditions English-mediated reflexivity, with its stress on self-entrepreneurship, came to re…
Shanghai hukou , English and politics of mobility in China’s globalising economy
Amidst Shanghai’s transformation into a global metropolis and the resulting influx of internal migration, obtaining Shanghai hukou remains a challenging yet highly coveted socioeconomic aspiration. Simply earning high incomes, even for middle-class migrants, falls short of ensuring the desired level of geographical and social mobility. This article draws from a sociolinguistic ethnography conducted within a Shanghai-based multinational corporatio…
"Revisiting the "language part of work
This commentary revisits and extends Boutet's seminal perspectives on the "language part of work" by reflecting on its relevance in the AI-driven globalised economy, particularly under Taylorist and multilingual conditions. Drawing on Boutet's research on French workplaces two decades ago, it incorporates insights from diverse labour markets and cultural contexts through two ethnographic case studies. The first case investigates contemporary Tayl…
‘To invest or divest’
This article examines how skilled professionals in Chinese multinational corporations navigate language investment amid post-globalisation dynamics characterised by heightened geopolitical uncertainty. It advances ‘speculative bilingualism’ as a theoretical intervention, reframing English, and increasingly Mandarin, not as stable linguistic capital but as volatile, contingent resources whose value fluctuates with global realignments, national age…
China's Global Influence and Migration (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Multinational corporation (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Capital (architecture) (1 work) · China (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work)