Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration

The Long March to the City

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8092815
AutoresDong Jie (autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Páginas156
Data de publicação2011-08-19
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoDiscourse, identity, and China's internal migration (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraMultilingual Matters (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21832/9781847694218
OpenAlexW1562899750
Open LibraryOL24842722M
ISBN9781847694218
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19

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

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Internal migration · Linguistics · Political science · Population · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Children of immigrants · Children of migrant laborers · Chinese language · Discourse analysis · emigration and immigration · Social aspects · Sociolinguistics