Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration

The Long March to the City
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84769-419-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 229 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jie, Dong

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jie, Dong
Dong Jie is tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tsinghua University, China. She is the author of Discourse, Identity, and China’s Internal Migration (2011, Multilingual Matters) and The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China (2017, Routledge).

Dong Jie completed her PhD at Tilburg University in 2009. She is a linguistic anthropologist at the Babylon Center and the Department of Languages and Cultures, Tilburg University. Her publications include Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (2010, with Jan Blommaert).