"Interpretations of "Chinglish

Native Speakers, Language Learners and the Enregisterment of a Stigmatized Code

Bibliographic Data

ID2862601
AuthorsEric S Henry (0000-0002-8935-5013, Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume39
Issue5
Pages669-688
Publication date2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404510000655
OpenAlexW2158949840
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited32

As a linguistic curiosity, Chinglish has long fascinated native speakers of English, prompting numerous studies that analyze its form with a view towards either eliminating it or accepting it as a viable Standard English variant. In this article, I examine how various social groups involved in foreign language education in China, including Chinese students, foreign teachers and linguists, enregister Chinglish as a linguistic variety. I argue that Chinglish is not distinguished by the presence or absence of any particular linguistic feature, but a label produced in the intersubjective engagements between language learners and native speakers. Chinglish is structured by and reinforces the relations of expertise within the Chinese English language speech community, thus representing larger anxieties about nationalism and modernization in a global context

China · Code (set theory) · Context (archaeology) · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Political science · Sociology · Speech community · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology

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